On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM, <giuseppe.amatu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
"Simplified examples" do not help, they just confuse things even more. Can you explain what the ACTUAL goal is? And just because you currently have filenames without spaces doesn't mean that will always be the case, or that it's OK to write unsafe code.
