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Created December 9, 2010 21:11
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nargs -- a wrapper for xargs -d'\n' that cleans leading/trailing whitespace
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#!/bin/bash
sed 's/^[ ]\+//' | sed 's/[ ]\+$//' | xargs -d'\n' $@
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Apparently GNU Parallel works this way by default. There's no RHEL package, but I guess it's just a Perl program...

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