[lug] xargs guide

Chris Riddoch riddochc at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 21:25:08 MDT 2015


Cool, nice article!

Xargs will always be a useful program to have around and know how to
use, even though lately I usually find myself turning to Gnu
Parallel[1] a bit more often.  Worth checking out if you haven't run
across it.  You could describe it as a pretty substantial superset of
xargs.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Alexander Vallens <avallens at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
> Thank you for writing & sharing!
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's stdout
>> to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy for
>> shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
>> xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:
>>
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
>>
>> Hope you like it.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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