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Quick question, how the for loop is accessing values passed by xargs, also what is the need to end the command with sh ?

Krrish Raj
– Krrish Raj

2018-04-30 11:45:56 +00:00
Commented Apr 30, 2018 at 11:45
@krrish, that sh is stored by sh inside $0. That is, it give a name (here sh, you could use any arbitrary string, but use something relevant as it shows up in error messages output by sh) to that inline-script. xargs passes the words on its input as additional arguments to sh, and that's what for i do loops over (it loops over the positional parameters).

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2018-04-30 11:51:14 +00:00
Commented Apr 30, 2018 at 11:51

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