Top "Xargs" questions

How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names?

I'm trying to copy a bunch of files below a directory and a number of the files have spaces and …

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Make xargs execute the command once for each line of input

How can I make xargs execute the command exactly once for each line of input given? It's default behavior is …

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Running multiple commands with xargs

cat a.txt | xargs -I % echo % In the example above, xargs takes echo % as the command argument. But in some …

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Using grep to search for hex strings in a file

I have been trying all day to get this to work. Does anyone know how to get grep, or something …

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Make xargs handle filenames that contain spaces

$ ls *mp3 | xargs mplayer Playing Lemon. File not found: 'Lemon' Playing Tree.mp3. File not found: 'Tree.mp3' Exiting... (…

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Running programs in parallel using xargs

I currently have the current script. #!/bin/bash # script.sh for i in {0..99}; do script-to-run.sh input/ output/ $i done …

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xargs with multiple arguments

I have a source input, input.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt I want to feed these input into …

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Calling shell functions with xargs

I am trying to use xargs to call a more complex function in parallel. #!/bin/bash echo_var(){ echo $1 return 0 } …

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How to use > in an xargs command?

I want to find a bash command that will let me grep every file in a directory and write the …

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Modifying replace string in xargs

When I am using xargs sometimes I do not need to explicitly use the replacing string: find . -name "*.txt" | xargs …

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