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xargs-alias: add sed version
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  1. No longer includes an xargs invocation.
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  3. A response to https://sonomu.club/@gavcloud/104243111086171881 that I'm not
  4. sure is entirely reasonable.
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  6. May or may not work on a Mac.
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  8. The original question was how to do something like the intent of:
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  10. alias lst "!cat ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/nnn/.selection | xargs -0 -I fname echo "put" \'fname\' > files.lftp"
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  12. This is a good example of how ridiculously painful quote escaping is in the
  13. shell, and how I don't really have a good set of general habits for avoiding
  14. these problems, apart from doing this kind of thing in a general purpose
  15. programming language instead of involving the shell.