of course... =P
So xargs just opens up standard input, reads data, reads a file per line as default and calls an instance of the following program with a command line argument of one of the files for each file.
I was trying to think of any other programs that do this in one go and can process standard input as arguments also (inherant xargs), but couldn't come up with any.
The closest thing I could think of that I use... 
find -name "*.h" -exec grep "search word" {} \; -print

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looks like its just the same thing, once find has all the files, call and instance of grep with a single argument.
Anyways thanks for your help, thats what I needed =).

Regards Paul.

In reply to Re^2: Receiving Standard Input/Piped by thekestrel
in thread Receiving Standard Input/Piped by thekestrel

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