xargs -i vs. -n

[Dan Jacobson]

Sorry I forgot the right bug address already and the xargs man page
has none.

There might be a conflict between xargs -n and -i.

The users wants to do
uuencode .forward .forward
uuencode .procmailrc .procmailrc
but can't get -n 1 to work while -i was there using this:
echo .forward .procmailrc|xargs -n 1 -i uuencode {} {}
so he gave up and used
for i in .forward .procmailrc; do uuencode $i $i; done
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