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 … Read more
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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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more