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Calling shell functions with xargs

I am trying to use xargs to call a more complex function in parallel. #!/bin/bash echo_var(){ echo $1 return 0 } seq -f ...

May 26, 2022
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How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names?

I’m trying to copy a bunch of files below a directory and a number of the files have spaces and single-quotes in their ...

May 23, 2022
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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 mydir to root ...

May 23, 2022
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Make xargs handle filenames that contain spaces

$ ls *mp3 | xargs mplayer Playing Lemon. File not found: 'Lemon' Playing Tree.mp3. File not found: 'Tree.mp3' Exiting... (End of file) My ...

May 12, 2022
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Running multiple commands with xargs

cat a.txt | xargs -I % echo % In the example above, xargs takes echo % as the command argument. But in some ...

May 9, 2022
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Make xargs execute the command once for each line of input

How can I make xargs execute the command exactly once for each line of input given? It’s default behavior is to chunk the ...

May 6, 2022
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