Re: xargs with zsh function

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-01-17 7:10 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> How about this:
>
> $ autoload zargs
> $ xzargs() { zargs -- "${(f)$(read -d '' -E)}" -- "$@" }
> $ ... | xzargs my_function
Playing with that running this script (test):

   autoload zargs
   xzargs() { zargs -t -- "${(f)$(read -d '' -E)}" -- "$@" }

   function el ()
   {
   echo howdy
   }

   vvar=( 'mnt' 'rap' )

   print -l "$vvar" | xzargs el

------------------------------------------
$ . test
xzargs: bad math expression: operator expected at `rap'
el mnt rap
howdy

... It works fine with a single literal input or a single string 
variable but I'd want to be throwing large numbers of lines at this.  I 
know the receiving function might have to be feed them one at a time, 
which is easy, but I can't get zargs to swallow more than one string.