Make xargs execute the command once for each line of input

Question

How can I make xargs execute the command exactly once for each line of input given? It\'s default behavior is to chunk the lines and execute the command once, passing multip

Answer 1

These two ways also work, and will work for other commands that are not using find!

xargs -I '{}' rm '{}'
xargs -i rm '{}'

example use case:

find . -name "*.pyc" | xargs -i rm '{}'

will delete all pyc files under this directory even if the pyc files contain spaces.