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Adding a new tool unfold
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Using utilities from, [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/moreutils moreutils]
'''unfold'''
Defining unfold as the opposite of xargs, i.e take a list of arguments and send them one at a time.
The definition would be
<lang bash>
|cat unfold
num=$1
while read xxx; do
for i in $xxx; do
echo $i
done |xargs -n $num echo
done
|echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |unfold 3
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8
</lang>
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