How to pass command output as multiple arguments to another command
linux, shell, unix
Solution
You can use `xargs`:
grep 'pattern' input | xargs -I% cp "%" "%.bac"
Problem
I want to pass each output from a command as multiple argument to a second command, e.g.: ``` grep "pattern" input ``` returns: ``` file1 file2 file3 ``` and I want to copy these outputs, e.g: ``` cp file1 file1.bac cp file2 file2.bac cp file3 file3.bac ``` How can I do that in one go? Something like: ``` grep "pattern" input | cp $1 $1.bac ```