Re: Re: xargs mock run

raf wrote:  > ... | xargs echo cmd ...   Good hack.   Thing is, I tried it before and it did not work. That is why I strayed the whole topic.  Now it works, so thats OK.   There is a problem though:   $  echo a > a.txt; echo b > b.txt; echo c > "c with spaces.txt"  $  echo * | xargs echo gzip | sh  gzip: c: No such file or directory  gzip: with: No such file or directory  gzip: spaces.txt: No such file or directory   If user checks his command line, and decided to use it as a script, whether through or script, then it is going tip have problem with spaces in names.