Commands using xargs (769)
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This command will a particular folder-name recursively found under the src-path-to-search to the dest-path-to-copy retaining the folder structure
0find <src-path-to-search> -name "<folder-name>" | xargs -i cp -avfr --parent {} /<dest-path-to-copy> -
Lists all packages in "rc" state and purge them one at a time.
0dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs dpkg -P -
Im' not interested in images, but that's how I would do it.
0curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/wg/|sed -r 's/.*href="([^"]*).*/\1\n/g'|grep images|xargs wget -
0find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
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Output made so that it will match initial suggestion for this task. Personally, I think that output of du -h is more readable.
0find . -type f -size +20000k -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | awk -F"\t" '{printf "%s : %s\n", $2, $1}' -
0users | xargs -n1 echo | sort | uniq -c
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same as
grep -lL "foo" $(grep -l bar *cl*.log)0grep -l foo *cl*.log | xargs grep -lL bar -
0unjar () { mkdir -p /tmp/unjar/$1 ; unzip -d /tmp/unjar/$1 $1 *class 1>/dev/null && find /tmp/unjar/$1 -name *class -type f | xargs jad -ff -nl -nonlb -o -p -pi99 -space -stat ; rm -r /tmp/unjar/$1 ; }
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this command will install the packages which provides the libraries you need to link with, e.g. when you compile something needs opengl libraries: gcc -o testgl testgl.c -lGLEW -lGL -lGLU -lglut you can use `/usr/lib/libGLEW.so /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGLU.so /usr/lib/libglut.so'
0yum whatprovides /usr/lib/libXX1.so /usr/lib/libXX2.so | grep fc | sed 's/^\(.*\)-[0-9.]*-.*$/\1/' | sort | uniq | xargs yum -y install -
print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs Show Sample Output
0find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch -
The result of this command is a tar with all files that have been modified/added since revision 1792 until HEAD. This command is super useful for incremental releases.
0svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {} -
Command to install everything on a debian based system with the prefix you indicate.
0apt-cache search pidgin* | awk '{print$ 1}' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs aptitude -y install -
An advanced possibility to count the lines of code like in #8394 Show Sample Output
0find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l -
0git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --
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0find / -name core | xargs /bin/rm -f
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to be executed from root. this works well on most commercial unix systems, have not tried on linux systems.
0ps -fu userid | awk '/userid/{print $2}' | xargs kill -
This combines @zurvollenstunde's hourly tweets and the "n minutes ago" from Twitter search. Show Sample Output
0curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs | sed -e 's#\ #:#' -
0pidof httpd | sed 's/ / -p /g' | xargs strace -fp
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This command can be used to rename all the files with extension .xls( in this case) to .ods files. It can be used for other files with certain extension.
0find / -name "*.xls" -print0 | xargs -0 rename .xls .ods {} -
If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use
curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzipinstead ofcurl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com0curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget -
If you used to do `vlc /tmp/Flash*`, but no longer can't, this is for you.
0find -L /proc/`ps aux | grep [f]lash | awk '{print $2}'`/fd/ | xargs file -L | grep Video | awk '{sub(/:/, ""); print $1}' | xargs vlc -
It can work for message queue, semaphore set or shared memory just changing the parameter.
0ipcs -ma | awk '/^m / { if ($9 == 0) { print $2 }}' | xargs -n 1 ipcrm -m -
vim 7 required
0vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n` -
0svn st | grep '^?' | sed -e 's/\?[[:space:]]*//' | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn add
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