Hello, please find an error detected when is used a combination of "xargs" and "grep", arguments {} are not substituted in grep construction: expected results: echo "inga"|grep -c "i" 1 user@box1:~$ a="i"; echo `echo "inga"|grep -c $a` 1
but was necessary tu use it in combination with xargs: user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo $(echo {} ;a=$(echo {}) ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a) i i 0 user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo $(echo {} ;a=`echo {}` ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a) i i 0 user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo $(echo {} ;a={} ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a) i i 0 user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo `echo {} ;a={} ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a` i i 0 user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo `echo {} ;a={} ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a` i i 0 user@box1:~$ echo "i" | xargs -I{} echo `echo {} ;a={} ; echo $a ; echo "inga"|grep -c $a` i i 0 Thanks, Sergiu Bordei