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<tt>xargs</tt> is useful to turn stdout-generated content into commands that are immediately executed. | |||
<tt>xargs</tt> reads space/tab/newline and end-of-file delimited strings from standard input and executes the specified "utility" with the strings as argument: | |||
... | xargs <''utility''> | |||
Revision as of 00:31, 30 July 2019
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Overview
xargs is useful to turn stdout-generated content into commands that are immediately executed.
xargs reads space/tab/newline and end-of-file delimited strings from standard input and executes the specified "utility" with the strings as argument:
... | xargs <utility>