Re: [gentoo-user] OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

[parazyd]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Adam Carter wrote:

>    I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i
>    want to have another command run multiple times taking a single line
>    contents as its argument(s) each time. From what i understand of xargs
>    it takes all the piped input and runs a command once with each of the
>    piped inputs as another argument.
>    Eg. say i want to run ethtool against each active interface dumped out
>    by;
>    ifconfig | grep ^[a-zA-Z] | awk '{print $1}'
>    Tnx

pipe to `while read` ?

yourcommand | while read line; do
	echo $line
done

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