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Created February 2, 2013 03:55
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Pipe or redirect-output from a sh for loop
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gistfile1.txt
(~)$ 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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