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Timeline for Using xargs with input from a file

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Oct 5, 2020 at 3:16 answer added Enginer Rod timeline score: 2
May 19, 2012 at 22:31 answer added musiphil timeline score: 2
Dec 6, 2010 at 16:57 answer added Johan timeline score: 0
Dec 5, 2010 at 12:00 answer added Ole Tange timeline score: 6
Oct 30, 2010 at 7:08 answer added Brad Clawsie timeline score: 9
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Oct 29, 2010 at 7:36 answer added Stefan timeline score: 97
Oct 29, 2010 at 2:46 answer added Michael Mrozek timeline score: 20
Oct 29, 2010 at 2:40 comment added Josh K @Michael: When you run a list through xargs it breaks it up by line and feeds each line into a command, right? How do I access that if I need to say something like cat file | xargs curl http://example.com/[PASSED FROM FILE].tar?
Oct 29, 2010 at 2:07 comment added Michael Mrozek I'm not quite following the question, sorry. In particular I'm not sure what "I don't know what is passed to the command being executed though" means
Oct 29, 2010 at 1:54 history asked Josh K CC BY-SA 2.5