How to apply shell command to each line of a command output?

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Published on 2010-04-26T03:31:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 4:33 UTC
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Suppose I have some output from a command (such as ls -1):

a
b
c
d
e
...

I want to apply a command (say echo) to each one, in turn. E.g.

echo a
echo b
echo c
echo d
echo e
...

What's the easiest way to do that in bash?

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