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=Overview= | |||
<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''> | |||
echo "a.txt b.txt" | xargs ls -l | |||
builds and executes: | |||
ls -l a.txt b.txt | |||
Latest revision as of 00:32, 30 July 2019
Internal
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>
echo "a.txt b.txt" | xargs ls -l
builds and executes:
ls -l a.txt b.txt