Commands using xargs (769)
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0vboxmanage list runningvms | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs -I % vboxmanage controlvm % poweroff
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0grep -l --include '*.rb' --include '*.rake' '^[^#]*[^a-zA-Z0-9[:punct:][:space:]]' -R . | xargs -L1 awk '!/encoding/ && NR < 2 { print FILENAME }'
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0export KEEP_KERNEL=2; dpkg -l 'linux-image*' | awk '/^ii/ { print $2 }' | grep "[0-9]" | awk 'BEGIN{i=1}{print i++, $0}' | grep `uname -r` -B99 | sort -r | tail -n+$(($KEEP_KERNEL+2)) | awk '{print $2}'| xargs apt-get -y purge
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0find -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.(css|js)$' | xargs -I{} sh -c "echo '{}' && yuicompressor '{}' | gzip -c > '{}.gz'"
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This lists the number of ogg/mp3/wav/flac files in each subdirectory of the current directory. The output can be sorted by piping it into "sort -n". Show Sample Output
0find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} sh -c 'find "{}" -type f | grep "ogg\|mp3\|wav\|flac$" | wc -l | tr -d "\n"; echo " {}"' -
Getting current wallpaper on nautilus file-managers
0gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri | xargs nautilus -
0zipinfo -1 aap.zip | xargs -d '\n' rm
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recurse through all files, get the message hash, flip the output as filename, hash value Show Sample Output
0find $1 -not -iwholename "*.svn*" -type f | xargs md5sum | awk '{print $2 "\t" $1}' -
0find /logdir -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 nice -n 20 bzip2 -9
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Maps block devices to the PCIe nodes
0udevadm info -q all -n /dev/sdb | grep ID_PATH | cut -d'-' -f 2 | xargs -n 1 lspci -s -
Does a search and replace across multiple files with a subgroup replacement.
0find . -name "*.txt" | xargs -n 1 perl -pi -w -e "s/text([0-9])/other\$1/g;" -
Another way to view some code by keyword and basic regular expression
0locate *\\.php|xargs grep --color=always -i -5 "namespace\s.*\W"|less -
shows you the symlinks in the current directory, recursively, but without following them Show Sample Output
0find ./ -type l -print0 | xargs -0 ls -plah -
Many tasks need mac id check. above command exactly do the same Show Sample Output
0ifconfig |grep HWaddr |cut -d ' ' -f 1,11 |grep eth0 |cut -d ' ' -f 2|xargs | awk -F':' '{ print $1$2$3$4$5$6 }' -
0find . -regex ".*\(avi\|mp4\|wmv\)$" -print0 | xargs -0 sha1sum
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Works even with spaces in filenames. As an alias in .gitconfig: [alias] editchanged = "!git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\\n' '\\0' | tr -d '\"' | xargs -0 vim"
0git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\n' '\0' | tr -d '"' | xargs -0 vim -
Find all files in SVN workspace directories which are uncommitted. List them and find their properties Show Sample Output
0for d in `ls -d *`; do svn status $d | awk '{print $2}'; done | xargs ls -l {} \; -
0dig MX example.com +short | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed '1q;d' | xargs dig +short
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0find . -type d -d 1 -print0 | xargs -0 du -sm | sort -nr
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Use case insensitive regex to match files ending in popular video format extensions and calculate their total time. (traverses all files recursively starting from the current directory) Show Sample Output
0find -type f -iregex '.*\.\(mkv\|mp4\|wmv\|flv\|webm\|mov\|dat\|flv\)' -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | perl -nle '/ID_LENGTH=([0-9\.]+)/ && ($t +=$1) && printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$t/3600,$t/60%60,$t%60' | tail -n 1 -
0find . |xargs grep '<html\|<body\|<table' |sed '/~/d;s/:.*//' |sed 's/.*/mv & &.html/' |uniq >run.sh; sh run.sh
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Downloads a CRL file, determines the expiration time, and checks when it will expire Show Sample Output
0[ `curl 'http://crl.godaddy.com/gds5-16.crl' 2>/dev/null | openssl crl -inform DER -noout -nextupdate | awk -F= '{print $2}' | xargs -I{} date -d {} +%s` -gt `date -d '8 hours' +%s` ] && echo "OK" || echo "Expires soon" -
0docker ps -a | grep 'Exit' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker rm
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0docker images | grep '' | awk '{print $3}' | xargs docker rmi
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Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
0find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash - ‹ First < 19 20 21 22 23 > Last ›
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