Yeah, I misremembered. Here's an example, using "-n 1" so each split "thing" is passed to separate processes: $ printf "one two three\nfour five\n" | xargs

Yeah, I misremembered. Here's an example, using "-n 1" so each split "thing" is passed to separate processes: $ printf "one two three\nfour five\n" | xargs -n 1 echo one two three four five