Re: Copy a file one hundred times

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:45:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/21/08 15:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> $ seq -w 1 1 10 | xargs -i -n1 cp file.jpg file{}.jpg
>
> What's with the {}?  An implied variable?

$ LANG=C man xargs | grep -C 2 '{}'
       -i[replace-str]
              This  option  is  a  synonym for -Ireplace-str if replace-str is
              specified, and for -I{} otherwise.  This option  is  deprecated;
              use -I instead.

--
       example:

       somecommand | xargs -s 50000 echo | xargs -I '{}' -s 100000 rm '{}'

       Here, the first invocation of xargs has no input line length limit  be-

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