GNU Commands

xargs

awesome command, xargs is used to send the output of one command to the parameter of another command. I use it a lot with 'find', i.e.:

 find . -name "somepattern" | xargs rm -f

could be used to forcibly remove all the files returned by 'find'. Use -l to send one argument at a time to the command -- otherwise the whole list is sent to the command.

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-- SamPreston - 30 Apr 2007