Use find + xargs to edit multiple files at once with KDE Kate

The problem: Edit many files in one single kate process. 1) FILE_LIST is a variable which contains a list of path FILE_LIST="$MAIN_PATH1 $MAIN_PATH2 ... $MAIN_PATH3" 2) DST_DIR is the destination folder in /tmp for the symlink of the files to edit. 3) A for - loop feed a find request 4) The find request uses xargs to build the link files; one uses print0/-0 because some filename contains space for A_DIR in $LIST_PATH ; do find "$A_DIR" -type f ! -name "*.*~" ! -path "*000_ERRORS*" ! -path "*KEEP*" -print0 | xargs -0 -I@ bash -c " ln -s \"@\" \"$DST_DIR/${@##*/}\"" done 5) Up to here everything is alright. All symlinks are in one folder. 6) Then another finds request feed kate at once. find "$WORK_PATH" -type l -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} xdg-su -c "kate {} " That does not work as expected. Files are only accessible one by one. That is not the goal. But in another terminal if I run manually second find request command : find /tmp/000_PGM_001 -type l -print0 | xargs -L 1 -0 -I{} bash -c "kate '{}'" I may obtain all the files in the same instance. I may manually repeat the command until I get all the files in one kate install.