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Using utilities from, [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/moreutils moreutils] |
Using utilities from, [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/moreutils moreutils] |
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'''unfold''' |
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Defining unfold as the opposite of xargs, i.e take a list of arguments and send them one at a time. |
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The definition would be |
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<lang bash> |
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|cat unfold |
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num=$1 |
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while read xxx; do |
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for i in $xxx; do |
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echo $i |
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done |xargs -n $num echo |
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done |
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|echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |unfold 3 |
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1 2 3 |
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4 5 6 |
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7 8 |
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</lang> |
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