Commands using xargs (769)
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One of my friends committed his code in the encoding of GB2312, which broke the build job. I have to find his code and convert.
-1find . -name "*.java" -type f -perm +600 -print | xargs -I _ sh -c 'grep -q hexianmao _ && iconv -f gb2312 -t utf8 -o _ -c _ ' -
Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf -
-1svn st | grep -e [MA] | egrep -ve '.project|.classpath|.properties|.sh|.number' | awk -F' ' '{ print $2}' | xargs svn ci -m "message"
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-1ps -C apache o pid= | sed 's/^/-p /' | xargs strace
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-1ls | sed 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv
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urldecode files in current directrory
-1ls * | while read fin;do fout=$(echo -n $fin | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e);if [ "$fout" != "$fin" ];then echo "mv '$fin' '$fout'";fi;done | bash -x -
Undo accidental file add to mercurial. This command undo file adds to all recent adds
-1hg st --added -n |xargs hg revert -
-1dpkg -l | sed '/^rc/!d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' | xargs -r sudo apt-get -y purge
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-1git branch -a | grep "remotes/origin" | grep -v master | awk -F / '{print $3}' | xargs -I % git clone -b % git://github.com/jamesotron/DevWorld-2010-Cocoa-Workshop %
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There's nothing particularly novel about this combination of find, grep, and wc, I'm just putting it here in case I want it again. Show Sample Output
-1find . -name '*.java' -o -name '*.xml' | grep -v '\.svn' | xargs wc -l -
Escapes spaces in paths.
-1locate -i yourfilename | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -lah | less -
Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R Show Sample Output
-1sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo -
calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory Show Sample Output
-1#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @ -
Assuming you have zenity installed, and assuming that you keep your backgrounds in ~/backgrounds, then this should work for you! :)
-1zenity --list --width 500 --height 500 --column 'Wallpapers' $(ls) | xargs xsetbg -center -smooth -fullscreen -
-1recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*\('$MAILDIR'[^]]*\)\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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-1find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0r awk '/^\xEF\xBB\xBF/ {print FILENAME} {nextfile}'
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You must spezify /where folder and / folder If you have another camera you must experiment with Exif data (after -g and after grep) and mask of your photo files IMG_????.JPG I have do it on Knoppix 6.7.0 You must have installed exiv2. Show Sample Output
-1find / -type f -name IMG_????.JPG -print0 |xargs -0 exiv2 -g Exif.Canon.ModelID '{}' |grep A520 |rev |cut --complement -d " " -f1-40 |rev |xargs -I {} cp --parents {} /where -
-1ls /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]*|xargs -I '{}' sar -u -f {}|awk '/^[0-9]/&&!/^12:00:01|RESTART|CPU/{print "%user: "$4" %system: "$6" %iowait: "$7" %nice: "$5" %idle: "$9}'|sort -nk10|head
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Open all files which have some string go directly to the first line where that string is and run command on it. Other examples: Run vim only once with multiple files (and just go to string in the first one):
grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs vim +/string_to_findRun vim for each file, go to string in every one and run command (to delete line):grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":delete"-1grep -rl string_to_find public_html/css/ | xargs -I '{}' vim +/string_to_find {} -c ":s/string_to_find/string_replaced" -
-1touch file{1..10}.txt ; ls *txt| sed -e "p;s/\.txt$/\.csv/"|xargs -n2 mv
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-1find -type f | xargs ls -1tr
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xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.
-1find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 -
If you have a directory with lot of backups (full backups I mean), when it gets to some size, you could want to empty some space. With this command you'll remove half of the files. The command assumes that your backup files starts with YYYYMMDD or that they go some alphabetical order. Show Sample Output
-1find . | sort | awk 'NR%2==0' | xargs rm $1 -
-1ls | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
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This command removes all ruby gems except the default ones that can not be removed. It is based on http://geekystuff.net/2009/01/14/remove-all-ruby-gems/
-1gem list | cut -d" " -f1 | grep --invert-match "test-unit\|psych\|io-console\|rdoc\|json\|bigdecimal\|rake\|minitest" | xargs gem uninstall -aIx - ‹ First < 25 26 27 28 29 > Last ›
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