Better make sure there's no spaces in that <something> or that will break. I usually use this: <something> | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 -n1 command The tr w

Better make sure there's no spaces in that <something> or that will break. I usually use this: <something> | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 -n1 command The tr will convert newlines to nulls. Otherwise you need to change the IFS. Just commenting because this was a bugbear of mine when getting started in bash.