Am Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:05:02 +1100
schrieb Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com>:
> I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i
> want to have another command run multiple times taking a single line
> contents as its argument(s) each time. From what i understand of
> xargs it takes all the piped input and runs a command once with each
> of the piped inputs as another argument.
>
> Eg. say i want to run ethtool against each active interface dumped
> out by; ifconfig | grep ^[a-zA-Z] | awk '{print $1}'
I prefer piping such "one file name per line" outputs to the following
construct:
... | while read line; do command "$line"; done
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Regards,
Kai
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