Sorry i was not clear, yes my purpose is
" simply to avoid having a second file containing a bash script " but find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -n 1 -P 10 bash -c 'echo "$1" ' or ls '*.txt' | xargs -n 1 -P 10 bash -c 'echo $1 ' do not print $1 so the argument (-n 1) is not passed inside. any idea? Thanks Giuseppe p.s. my files are all without space.
