Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I think something similar with xargs would work too:
>
> find -name '*.mpc' -print0 | \
> xargs -0 -i mppdec "{}" "`echo {} | sed s/.mpc/.wav`"
>
No, because the section in backticks would be executed by the shell,
before xargs.
xargs can't be used to run anything with shell substitution. It doesn't
call system().