Look! An xargs!! (Re: recursive grep)

David Elliott dce at Solbourne.COM
Mon Sep 4 09:57:58 AEST 1989


In article <4026 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Okay, kids.  Shell script 101 is now in session.
>
>Try this, after putting  it in a file and turning on the execute flag.
>
>    while read arrrrg
>    do
>	    $* $arrrrg
>    done

What if one of the members of $* or $arrrrg contains spaces?

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct ;-)

	eval ${1+"$@"} "$arrrrg"

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