Pass changed files path to another command

Question

I have a versioning command and we have to manually run it with all the changed files.

Is it possible to pass the changed and added files to another command as argument?

I have tried solutions mentioned in this link: is it possible to `git status` only modified files?, but its not working.

For sample I have made a dummy command:

function notify(){
    echo "*****************************************************************"
    echo $1
    echo "*****************************************************************"
}

And I try to use it as:

git status -s | notify

git ls-files -m | notify

Is there a way to send individual file path to such command?

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Edit 1:

As rightly pointed by mallaudin, I was missing xargs. But adding that now throws another error.

xargs: notify: No such file or directory

Answer 1

You can use xargs

git ls-files -m | xargs notify

From this question

xargs takes an executable as an argument (including custom scripts) rather than a function defined in the environment.

Either move your code to a script or use xargs to pass arguments to an external command.

You can move your function's code to a separate bash file e.g. notify.bash and use it like

git ls-files -m | xargs notify.bash

Answer 2

Pipe output to bash function this can help you.

function notify(){
    echo "*****************************************************************"
    read foo
    echo "*****************************************************************"
}