xargs

build and execute command lines from standard input

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xargs -I '{}' mv dir1/'{}' dir2/'{}'

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cut -d: -f1 < /etc/passwd | sort | xargs echo

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echo 1 2 3 4 | xargs echo

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find . -name "*.foo" -print0 | xargs -0 grep barfind files matching *.foo and grep the contents to find bar

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find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

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find /etc -name "*.conf" | xargs ls –llist all the conf files with -l

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find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print | xargs echo Directories:List all directories in current directory

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cat urls.txt | xargs wget –cDownload all the urls in urls.txt

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find /path -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rmpipe the output of find into xargs and remove the file with rm

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xargs sh -c 'emacs "$@" < /dev/tty' emacs

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somecommand | xargs -s 50000 echo | xargs -I '{}' -s 100000 rm '{}'

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