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Old 04-12-2013
Ubuntu Pipe output a command to another using xargs
xargs work great when a command gives multiple line output which can be input to another. In my case it is not working coz the second command uses two words in it.


$ scr.sh
gives output like

193740
638102
375449
..
..

another command takes these number as inputs. it works great when done separately.
$ show data 193740
which gives report on this. I want a full report of all these number.

I tried like this:

$ scr.sh | xargs show data
but it doesn't work. Please provide your inputs on this.Smilie
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Old 04-12-2013
xargs will try to cram them all into one call unless you tell it otherwise.

Code:
scr.sh | xargs -n 1 show data

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