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February 2, 2013 03:55
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Pipe or redirect-output from a sh for loop
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| (~)$ for x in `seq 5`; do echo $x; done | xargs ls | |
| ls: 1: No such file or directory | |
| ls: 2: No such file or directory | |
| ls: 3: No such file or directory | |
| ls: 4: No such file or directory | |
| ls: 5: No such file or directory | |
| (~)$ for x in `seq 5`; do echo $x; done > tmpfile | |
| (~)$ cat tmpfile | |
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | |
| 5 |
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