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Commands using xargs

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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 . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"
2012-08-30 21:41:34
User: deepakfrenzy
Functions: find grep xargs
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find all files in the current directory matching name * and searching for a string "mystring". outputs all the filenames that contain the search string.
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm
2012-08-29 11:38:37
User: defc0n1
Functions: find sudo xargs
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Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you

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find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'
2012-08-28 12:52:38
User: mx4492
Functions: bash find head xargs
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Preview All Files in Directory
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;
2012-08-22 09:51:40
User: ktopaz
Functions: file find last mv rm touch xargs
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find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ;

creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between:

201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00

201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00

then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file:

find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last

meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last"

pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command:

| xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/

and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation:

rm first; rm last;

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curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/---/res/nnnnnn | grep -o -i 'File: <a href="//images.4chan.org\/[a-z]*\/src\/[0-9]*\.[a-z]\{3\}' | sed -r 's/File: <a href="\/\///' |xargs wget
2012-08-21 07:25:20
User: MonsieurMachin
Functions: grep xargs
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Download all images from a 4chan thread

Couldn't make the other work so I made this

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find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x
2012-08-09 18:53:08
User: llebegue
Functions: awk chmod file find grep xargs
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Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh

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ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder
2012-08-06 09:07:03
User: crisboot
Functions: grep ls mv xargs
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Using Grep & Xargs to clean folders

In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder

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find path -name '*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n pattern1 | grep pattern2
2012-07-29 00:40:06
User: bugmenot
Functions: find grep xargs
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Find inside files two different patterns in the same line and for matched files show number of matched lines

The option -print0 for find and -0 for grep help prevent issue with weird characters or spaces in filenames. Furthermore with xargs there is no limited number of arguments that find can throw.

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find . -type f \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' \) | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt
2012-07-17 09:41:18
User: rajendra_s_y
Functions: find grep tee xargs
Tags: find
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List down source files which include another source file
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find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'
2012-07-15 21:55:35
User: bisio
Functions: find sed xargs
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search and replace in multiple files
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ps -fu $USER | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill [-9]
2012-07-06 21:17:01
User: carlossiscomtec
Functions: awk kill ps xargs
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Kill all processes belonging to a user
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ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9
2012-07-03 20:37:56
User: j0sh10
Functions: gawk grep kill ps xargs
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Command to kill PID

You can also use gawk:

ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head -10
2012-06-30 10:03:31
User: netaxiz
Functions: du find head sort xargs
Tags: sort find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -hr | head
2012-06-29 12:43:06
User: mesuutt
Functions: du find sort xargs
Tags: sort find file size
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Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size
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git submodule status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -P5 -n1 git submodule update --init
2012-06-27 19:26:56
User: lox
Functions: awk xargs
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Execute git submodule update in parallel with xargs
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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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grep -r -Z -l "<text>" . | xargs -0 echo rm
2012-06-14 08:09:46
User: limonte
Functions: echo grep xargs
Tags: grep
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delete files containing matching text

-r recursively

-Z zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline

-l only filenames

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-x
2012-06-11 07:28:30
User: jlaunay
Functions: chmod find xargs
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exec chmod to subfiles

Using xargs is usually much quicker as it does not have to execute chmod for every file

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ls -ltr |grep 'May 12'|awk '{print $9;}'|xargs rm -v
2012-06-04 12:31:41
User: harpo
Functions: awk grep ls rm xargs
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grep files by date and delete

executed on SLES 11.2

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git ls-files | xargs -n1 git blame --line-porcelain | sed -n 's/^author //p' | sort -f | uniq -ic | sort -nr
2012-06-02 22:04:36
User: hugopeixoto
Functions: sed sort uniq xargs
Tags: statistics git
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Prints per-line contribution per author for a GIT repository

Uses line-porcelain in git blame, which makes it easier to parse the output.

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for foo in <list of directories>; do while find $foo -type d -empty 2>/dev/null| grep -q "."; do find $foo -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir; done; done
2012-05-23 08:09:16
User: ClashTheBunny
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: unix directories rmdir empty
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Recursively remove all empty directories

This will check if there are any empty directories, or newly emptied directories, in a list of directories. It will then delete all of those directories. It works with gnu find and OSX/BSD find.

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seq 1 5 | xargs -I"#" date --date="today -# days" +'%Y-%m-%d'
2012-05-22 14:22:04
User: happycat
Functions: date seq xargs
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List the most recent dates in reverse-chronological order
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find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs rm -rf
2012-05-18 10:26:55
User: luckymurari
Functions: find rm xargs
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Remove all .svn directories recursively from a directory

This simple command removes all the .svn directories recursively. Useful when you want to get a clean code excluding .svn files.

Check what is getting delete through this command

" find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs echo "

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find -type l | xargs ls -l
2012-05-15 22:34:51
User: samer
Functions: find ls xargs
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List all symlinks and see where they link to
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