Commands using xargs (769)
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0find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}
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-sl : show just file names
0find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl -
0find -iname \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdfgrep -i "my search text"
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LC_ALL=C is here to always grep on "differ" whatever your language env. xargs -n 2 to run gvim -d with 2 arguments gvim --nofork to use only one instance of gvim
0LC_ALL=C diff -q dir1 dir2 | grep differ | awk '{ print $2, $4 }' | xargs -n 2 gvim --nofork -d -
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.
0svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}' -
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. Show Sample Output
0unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {} -
This short snippet outputs the state of all containers available on your system. It is quite helpful to see which ones are running and which are stopped. Please notice that the "sort -u" is needed, otherwise running containers will be reported twice (see output of "lxc-ls" on its own for why) Show Sample Output
0lxc-ls | sort -u | xargs -i sudo lxc-info -n {} -
0find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf
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0ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf
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0find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1
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0find . -iregex ".+\.\(c\|cpp\|h\)" | xargs -I{} perl -e "system(\"iconv -f SHIFT_JIS -t UTF-8 {} > temp; mv temp {} \");" ;
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0echo 474e552773204e6f7420556e697821 | sed -e 's/\(.\{2\}\)/\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e
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This is a handy command to put into ~/.bash_logout to automatically un-mount windows shares whenever the user logs out. If you use this on as a non-root account then you'll need to append sudo before umount and the user will need to have the appropriate sudoer rights to run the /bin/umount command.
0mount|grep -e '//'|cut -d ' ' -f3| xargs -I {} umount {} -
Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN Show Sample Output
0ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9 -
0git remote | xargs -n 1 git push
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useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
0cat 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 -
0sudo find . -name "syslog*.gz" -type f | xargs gzip -cd | grep "Mounted"
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This let me find some a set of modifications that were made to a rather large tree of files, where the file-names themselves were not unique (actually: insanely redundant and useless. "1.dat 2.dat ..."). Pruning down to last-branch brough things back to the "project-name" scope, and it's then easy to see which branches of the tree have recently changed, or any other similar search. Ideally, it should sort the directories by the mtime of the most recent *file* *inside* the directory, but that's probably outside the scope of a (sane...) command line.
0ls -ltr --directory $(find . -regex "./.*[^/]*\'" -type f | xargs -n 1 dirname | sort | uniq) -
This is great when you need to reboot the system-server, or your own daemon that has gone crazy
0adb shell ps | grep <process name> | awk '{print $2}' | xargs adb shell kill -
This command removes *.lock or files from a folder.
0find -name *.lock |xargs rm -f -
Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed. Usefull to combine with
apt-get install <all manually packages that we want>to have a clean installed debian-based system.0aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T | xargs apt-mark markauto -
Improvement on Coderjoe's Solution. Gets rid of grep and cut (and implements them in awk) and specifies some different mplayer options that speed things up a bit. Show Sample Output
0find /path/to/dir -iname "*.ext" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -really-quiet -cache 64 -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | awk '/ID_LENGTH/{gsub(/ID_LENGTH=/,"")}{SUM += $1}END{ printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}' -
Helps to fix permissions when a user clobbers them in their home directory or elsewhere. Does not rely on file extension, but uses the `file` command for context.
0find . -type f ! -perm /u+x -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs file | grep -i executable -
0adb shell ps | grep my.app.packagename | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I ? sh -c "adb logcat -v time | grep ?"
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This command finds all files in a folder recursively and sets owner and group to read and write. Leaves all dirs intact. This command does takes care of file names with spaces as well.
0find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v gu=rw - ‹ First < 15 16 17 18 19 > Last ›
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