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Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: cat here is useless

rather use:

<file xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: cat here is useless

rather use:

<file xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: Cat is Useless

rather use:

<file xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: cat here is useless

rather use:

<file xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs curl -I % http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: Cat is Useless

rather use:

<file xargs curl -I % http://example.com/persons/%.tar

Michael's answer is right, and should sort out your problem. Running

cat file | xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar

will download files bob.tar john.tar. sue.tar as expected.

BUT: Cat is Useless

rather use:

<file xargs -I % curl http://example.com/persons/%.tar