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Re: zsh tips plea (tip of the day)



On 2004-07-24 04:32:28 -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> i thought that's what xargs is for...
> 	$ echo {1..30000} | xargs ls

Except that
  * xargs may be insecure, unless the option -0 is used;
  * xargs can't always be used for every command;
  * this requires more things to type (not important for scripts,
    but this may be annoying when typing commands interactively).

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