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Nov 16, 2016 at 16:44 comment added reinierpost I'm just commenting on why xargs may be a good habit to get into. For this particular case it doesn't seem to make much of a difference (unless the input is extremely long, command substitution might have a limit there).
Nov 16, 2016 at 13:23 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev @reinierpost URLs don't have funny characters to begin with.
Nov 16, 2016 at 8:58 comment added reinierpost xargs is better than command substitution in case your input has funny characters - it has options to deal with them, e.g. I like to provide -d'\n'.
Nov 16, 2016 at 8:54 comment added reinierpost xargs is very widely available.
Nov 16, 2016 at 5:34 comment added Wildcard @wdowling, it's portable but still a bad habit to get into. See the last paragraph of this answer.
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Nov 16, 2016 at 5:20 comment added Ipor Sircer utfg: developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/…
Nov 16, 2016 at 5:16 comment added wdowling This answer works just as well as the other answer and i like that the flow doesn't change. My only question is, is xargs supported cross platform? I routinely go back and forth between my linux box and a mac, so I always want to make sure i don't get in the habit of doing something that I can't do on one machine. Thanks for your quick response!
Nov 16, 2016 at 5:10 history answered Ipor Sircer CC BY-SA 3.0