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Commands tagged xargs

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watch 'ls -tr1 | tail -n1 | xargs tail'
2013-05-09 11:37:59
User: batandwa
Functions: tail watch xargs
Tags: tail ls xargs watch
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Poll and print end of lates modified file

Watches for file modifications in the current directory and tails the file.

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ls *.jpg | xargs -n1 -i cp {} /external-hard-drive/directory
2013-05-09 08:33:01
User: techie
Functions: cp ls xargs
Tags: ls xargs
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Copy all images to external hard-drive
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find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
2013-03-28 11:14:20
User: FiloSottile
Functions: chmod find xargs
Tags: find xargs chmod
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Recursively change permissions on directories, leave files alone.
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find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
2013-03-28 11:10:30
User: FiloSottile
Functions: chmod find xargs
Tags: find xargs chmod
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Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.

xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.

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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr
2013-03-20 16:43:54
User: unixmonkey50727
Functions: find ls xargs
Tags: find ls xargs
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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pwd|grep -o '/'|perl -ne '$x.="./.";print`readlink -f $x`'|xargs -tn1 chmod 755
2013-03-14 12:03:44
User: luke_skywalker
Functions: chmod grep perl pwd xargs
Tags: perl xargs grep chmod
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Ensure path permissions from '.' prior to root

`pwd` returns the current path

`grep -o` prints each slash on new line

perl generates the paths sequence: './.', './../.', ...

`readlink` canonicalizes paths (it makes the things more transparent)

`xargs -tn1` applies chmod for each of them. Each command applied is getting printed to STDERR.

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svn revert .
2013-03-13 06:07:42
User: zhenggc1
Tags: svn awk xargs grep
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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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cat item_list | xargs -n1 -P<n> process_item
2013-03-06 20:25:17
User: sanchan89
Functions: cat xargs
Tags: xargs parallel threadpool
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Instant threadpool
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for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600 resized-$file; done
2013-02-17 21:37:14
User: sonic
Functions: file
Tags: xargs convert
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resize all images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

To ignore aspect ratio, run:

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600! resized-$file; done

and all images will be exactly 800x600.

Use your shell of choice.. This was done in BASH.

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for file in `svn st | awk '{print $2}'`; do svn revert $file; done
2012-09-14 11:05:29
User: srounce
Functions: awk file
Tags: svn awk xargs grep
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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'
2012-09-03 17:59:49
User: vlaad
Functions: cut egrep lsmod modinfo sed tail xargs
Tags: xargs lsmod modinfo
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Short Information about loaded kernel modules
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find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n
2012-06-20 00:13:52
User: cellularmitosis
Functions: find sort stat
Tags: sort find xargs stat
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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

here's a version which works on OS X.

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find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"
2012-06-19 16:27:30
User: apotheos
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find xargs grep find text recursive
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List files containing given search string recursively
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find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} +
2012-06-11 12:50:56
User: sanmiguel
Functions: chmod find
Tags: find xargs chmod
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exec chmod to subfiles

Using `-exec cmd {} +` causes find to build the command using all matching filenames before execution, rather than once per file.

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git remote -v | grep fetch | sed 's/\(.*github.com\)[:|/]\(.*\).git (fetch)/\2/' | awk {'print "https://github.com/" $1'} | xargs open
2012-04-15 20:48:46
User: brockangelo
Functions: awk grep sed xargs
Tags: git sed alias xargs github
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Open the current project on Github by typing gh

Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.

You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:

http://gist.github.com/1917716

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -20
2012-03-30 10:21:12
User: flatcap
Functions: du find head sort xargs
Tags: sort find du xargs head,
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Recursively find top 20 largest files (> 1MB) sort human readable format

Search for files and list the 20 largest.

find . -type f

gives us a list of file, recursively, starting from here (.)

-print0 | xargs -0 du -h

separate the names of files with NULL characters, so we're not confused by spaces

then xargs run the du command to find their size (in human-readable form -- 64M not 64123456)

| sort -hr

use sort to arrange the list in size order. sort -h knows that 1M is bigger than 9K

| head -20

finally only select the top twenty out of the list

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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash
2012-02-28 17:25:14
User: hute37
Functions: cat cut echo grep sort uniq wc xargs
Tags: uniq xargs
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Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs

@see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment

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print "$(lsvg -Lo |xargs lsvg -L|grep "TOTAL PPs"|awk -F"(" '{print$2}'|sed -e "s/)//g" -e "s/megabytes/+/g"|xargs|sed -e "s/^/(/g" -e "s/+$/)\/1000/g"|bc ) GB"
2012-02-03 13:58:41
User: janvanderwijk
Tags: sed awk xargs grep print aix lsvg
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See the total amount of data on an AIX machine

Not figured by me, but a colleague of mine.

See the total amount of data on an AIX machine.

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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9
2012-01-27 20:31:36
User: k4ch0
Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs
Tags: awk xargs grep kill print ps
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Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN

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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1
2011-12-02 07:20:09
User: f4m8
Functions: find tail wc xargs
Tags: tail find xargs wc source count java code counter C/C++ source code
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Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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function whichpkg() { readlink -f "$(which $1)" | xargs --no-run-if-empty dpkg -S; }
2011-10-28 02:53:19
User: b_t
Functions: readlink xargs
Tags: xargs dpkg readlink
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Find out which debian package a command (executable) belongs to on debian-based distros

This revision to my command (command #8851) was called for when it failed to find the parent

package of 'rlogin', which is really a deep symbolic link to /usr/bin/ssh.

This revision fixes this newfound issue, while ensuring fixes of other older issues work too.

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unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}
2011-10-20 18:54:15
User: hk0i
Functions: awk rm xargs
Tags: awk xargs unzip rm
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un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them.

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for i in /usr/bin/* ;do touch ${i##*/}; done
2011-10-20 12:38:45
User: _john
Functions: touch
Tags: bash find xargs zsh
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Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers.

I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.

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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'
2011-10-06 08:11:25
User: erdeszt
Functions: grep rm sed xargs
Tags: svn sed xargs grep
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Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.

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lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }
2011-08-15 03:10:58
User: h3xx
Functions: find ls sort xargs
Tags: sort find ls xargs function list
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Sorted, recursive long file listing

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too.

On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login:

LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto'

and

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

which works great.

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