Joe Toon said:
> This works on FreeBSD, it might be slightly different on your Linux
> distro:
>
> cat users | xargs -L 1 -I $$ cp /etc/skel/.procmailrc $$


Here's the GNU version:

cat users | xargs -l1 cp /etc/skel/somefile

The -l1 option feeds xargs one line at a time.
~M