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Commands using xargs

Terminal - Commands using xargs - 521 results

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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svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn blame | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

2013-04-10 19:37:53

User: rymo

Functions: awk egrep ls sort tr uniq xargs

Tags: svn count

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Prints total line count contribution per user for an SVN repository

make usable on OSX with filenames containing spaces. note: will still break if filenames contain newlines... possible, but who does that?!

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find . -name *js -type f | xargs yardstick | sort -k6 -n

2013-04-06 00:19:46

User: noah

Functions: find sort xargs

Tags: javascript yardstick static-analysis comments

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Yardstick static analysis report sorted by which JavaScript files have the highest ratio of comments to code.

The number on the far right is ratio of comments to code, expressed as a percentage. For the rest of the Yardstick documentation see https://github.com/calmh/yardstick/blob/master/README.md#reported-metrics

ps aux | grep [process] | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I % ls /proc/%/fd | wc -l

2013-04-03 09:40:03

User: auser

Functions: awk grep ls ps wc xargs

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Get the number of open sockets for a process

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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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lsmod | grep -io MODULENAME| xargs modinfo | grep -iw version

2013-03-18 07:52:14

User: adriano

Functions: grep lsmod modinfo xargs

Tags: kernel modules

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Get version of loaded kernel module

Returns the version of the kernel module specified as "MODULENAME", when available.

alias gfind='find . -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -I '

2013-03-16 03:20:49

User: pdunham

Functions: alias egrep xargs

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Recursively search your directory tree files for a string

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dpkg --list | grep '^rc\b' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs sudo dpkg -P

2013-03-15 23:15:35

User: Zulu

Functions: awk grep sudo xargs

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Purge configuration file of all desinstalled package

From:

http://www.debian-administration.org/users/fsateler/weblog/4

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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.

find ./ -type f -name "*.php" | xargs grep -n "name" -r {}

2013-03-08 11:03:49

User: motopig

Functions: find grep xargs

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find str in in a directory which file extension is .php

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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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ps aux | grep <process> | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i -t kill -9 {}

2013-02-27 12:33:30

User: szimbaro

Functions: awk grep kill ps xargs

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Kill a lot of process once a time

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ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace -f

2013-02-19 19:14:57

User: msealand

Functions: awk grep ps strace xargs

Tags: awk token ps tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

This version also attaches to new processes forked by the parent apache process. That way you can trace all current and *future* apache processes.

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dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2}' | xargs apt-get -y remove --purge

2013-02-15 01:34:37

User: Richzendy

Functions: awk grep xargs

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Purge completely packages on debian / ubuntu

completely remove those packages that leave files in debian / ubuntu marked with rc and not removed completely with traditional tools

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for i in *RET.zip; do unzip -l "$i"| grep -B 4 XXX | grep RET| sed "s/.\+EPS/EPS/" |xargs -I '{}' cp '{}' out/'{}';done;

2013-02-13 17:24:37

User: tsonkomirchev

Functions: cp grep sed xargs

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copy zip files which contains XXX

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git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AMXTCR HEAD~2 HEAD | xargs -l -I{} cp --parents --verbose "{}" target_dir

2013-02-11 08:12:40

User: batandwa

Functions: cp diff xargs

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Copy modified files between two Git commits

touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv

2013-02-08 15:09:20

User: nomankhn

Functions: ls sed touch xargs

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rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv

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find /path/ -type f -exec grep -l '<string of text>' {} \; | xargs sed -i -e 's%<string of text>%<new text string>%g'

2013-02-07 18:47:01

User: leonteale

Functions: find grep sed xargs

Tags: sed search and replace

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a find and replace within text-based files

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dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\n' | xargs dpkg --status | sed '/^Conffiles:/,/^Description:/!d;//d' | awk '{print $2 " " $1}' | md5sum -c 2>/dev/null | grep FAILED$ | cut -f1 -d':'

2013-01-31 16:52:38

User: hallmarc

Functions: awk cut grep md5sum sed xargs

Tags: Debian conffiles packages

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Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation

This functionality seems to be missing from commands like dpkg. Ideally, I want to duplicate the behavior of rpm --verify, but it seems difficult to do this in one relatively short command pipeline.

git grep -l foo | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

2013-01-29 16:02:21

User: Schleis

Functions: grep sed xargs

Tags: git

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Git Global search and replace

Find all the occurrences in the git repo of 'foo' and replace with 'bar'

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find . -iname '*jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 exiftool -warning; find . -iname '*jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 jpeginfo -c

2013-01-28 16:44:19

User: unixmonkey46191

Functions: find xargs

Tags: Image processing image photo jpeg corrupt

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Find corrupted jpeg image files

This checks jpeg data and metadata, should be grepped as needed, maybe a -B1 Warning for the first, and a -E "WARNING|ERROR" for the second part....

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for i in `pfiles pid|grep S_IFREG|awk '{print $5}'|awk -F":" '{print $2}'`; do find / -inum $i |xargs ls -lah; done

2013-01-24 13:57:19

User: giorger

Functions: awk find grep ls xargs

Tags: find solaris10 inode pfiles S_IFREG inum

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How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10

Executing pfiles will return a list of all descriptors utilized by the process

We are interested in the S_IFREG entries since they are pointing usually to files

In the line, there is the inode number of the file which we use in order to find the filename.

The only bad thing is that in order not to search from / you have to suspect where could possibly be the file.

Improvements more than welcome.

lsof was not available in my case

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