git clone/pull multiple repositories at once with single command

Question

I need to clone (and later, pull) many repositories all with several set of options. For a lack of a better way, what I'm doing is

git clone <option> <option> <option> <option> ... repository_1 && \
git clone <option> <option> <option> <option> ... repository_2 && \
...

Is there a way to do this in a single command without repeating all the options?

git clone <option> <option> <option> <option> ... repository_1 repository_2 ...

Answer 1

echo repository_1 repository_2 ... | tr " " "\n" | xargs -L1 git clone

You can add your options to the git clone at the end

Comments

I've just noticed in the manpage that the -l is deprecated in favor of -L <max-lines>. So it should be -L 1 instead of -l.

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Thanks, edited accordingly :)

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Worked like a charm