Top "Xargs" questions

How to delete many 0 byte files in linux?

I've a directory with many number of 0 byte files in it. I can't even see the files when I use …

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Use xargs to mv a directory from find results into another directory

I have the following command: find . -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /path/to/target-dir \; This will move the directory founded …

shell find xargs mv

How to ignore xargs commands if stdin input is empty?

Consider this command: ls /mydir/*.txt | xargs chown root The intention is to change owners of all text files in …

bash centos xargs

how to output file names surrounded with quotes in SINGLE line?

I would like to output the list of items in a folder in the folowing way: "filename1" "filename2" "file name …

bash unix find xargs

Bash - how to unzip a piped zip file (from "wget -qO-")

Any ideas on how to unzip a piped zip file like this: wget -qO- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.5.3.…

bash wget unzip xargs

Tarballing without Git metadata

My source tree contains several directories which are using Git source control, and I need to tarball the whole tree …

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Batch renaming files in command line and Xargs

So, I have the following structure: . .. a.png b.png c.png I ran a command to resize them ls | …

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ls: terminated by signal 13 when using xargs

I'm using the following command to delete four largest size files in a folder: find "/var/www/site1/" -maxdepth 1 -type …

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How to execute multiple commands after xargs -0?

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs …

bash find xargs

Removing files with rm using find and xargs

When I do rm file.txt or rm *.txt I'm prompted for each file, since I didn't specify the -f …

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