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linux/xargs

Build and execute command lines from standard input

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pipeline

execution

xargs

xargs reads items from standard input and executes commands with those items as arguments.

Delete all .txt files

find . -name "*.txt" | xargs rm

List files from input

echo "file1 file2" | xargs ls -l

Copy files to backup

cat files.txt | xargs -I {} cp {} backup/

Sort lines of text files

Report or omit repeated lines

Locate binary, source, and manual page files