Abstract
Like xargs but with a temporary file from stdin instead of the arguments themselves. Read a file from stdin, copy it to a temporary file and call the given command line with the temporary filename as an argument.
Table of Contents
Like xargs but with a temporary file from stdin instead of the arguments themselves. Read a file from stdin, copy it to a temporary file and call the given command line with the temporary filename as an argument.
For example, you can use this to view PDF files read from stdin:
dot -Tps file.dot | ps2pdf - | xargf acroread
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