Commands using xargs (769)
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-1ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'
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Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes.
-1dmesg | grep -Po 'csum failed ino\S* \d+' | sort | uniq | xargs -n 3 find / -inum 2> /dev/null -
-1ps aux | grep name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
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for filename multilingual (ex.japanese, chinese, ...etc)
-1c=1; for i in *; do identify -verbose $i | perl -ane 'if(/exif:DateTimeOriginal:/){print "@F[1,2] "}'; ls -i $i; done | sort | perl -ane 'print "@F[2]\n"' | while read j; do find -inum $j | xargs -iX cp X NEW_`printf %02d $c`.jpg; cnt=`expr $c + 1`; done -
You could have that little benchmark run on all cores in parallel, as a multi-core benchmark or stress test First find the number of cores, then have parallel iterate over that in, well, parallel Show Sample Output
-1time cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep proc|wc -l|xargs seq|parallel -N 0 echo "2^2^20" '|' bc -
-1xargs -i -P 1200 nc -zvn {} 22 < textfile-with-hosts.txt
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-1git branch -d $( git branch -vv | grep '\[[^:]\+: gone\]' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs )
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Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.
-2find . -type f -print0 | grep -vzZ '.svn' | xargs -0 grep --color -nEHi "SEARCHTERM" -
Probably posted previously, I use this all the time to find and kill a process for "APP". Simply replace "APP" with the name of the process you're looking to kill.
-2ps -ef | grep APP | awk '/grep/!{print$2}' | xargs -i kill {} -
-2mount | grep : | tr -s ' ' -d 3 | xargs umount -v
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checking files in current and sub directories, finding out the files containing "sampleString" and removing the containing lines from the file. * Beware that The command will update the original file [no backup]. The command can be extended if play with 'find' command together, e.g. it is possible to execute on certain type of files: *.xml, *.txt... (find -name "*.xml" | grep....) if anybody knows a better solution on that, please drop a comment. thx.
-2grep -r "sampleString" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "/sampleString/d" -
-2svn st | grep /main/java | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo | xargs svn ci -m "my comment here"
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For quick validation of folder's file-contents (structure not taken into account) - I use it mostly to check if two folders' contents are the same. Show Sample Output
-2find path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 md5sum | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum | awk '{print $1}' -
Found here: http://xentek.net/xentek/315/recursively-delete-svn-folders/ This is fast and efficient because rm is only run once.
-2find . -name .svn | xargs rm -rf -
You can use this command to delete CVS/svn folders on given project.
-2find . -type d -name DIR -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -r -
"." is current dir, maxdepth is the level, -print0 | xargs -0 fix spaces in names, -i interactive , ./ is the current dir {} actual name , and {,.bak} is the atual name + bak
-2find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp ./{}{,.bak} -
Greps located files for an expression. Example greps all LaTeX files for 'foo':
locate *.tex | xargs grep fooTo avoid searching thousands of files with grep it could be usefull to test first how much files are returned by locate:locate -c *.tex-2locate searchstring | xargs grep foo -
-2find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9
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I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything
-2find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}" -
-2mount | awk '/:/ { print $3 } ' | xargs sudo umount
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remove files with access time older than a given date. If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time. The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other format. Show Sample Output
-2find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ; -
-2ps aux| grep -v grep| grep httpd| awk {'print $2'}| xargs kill -9
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-2ps ax| awk '/[h]ttpd/{print $1}'| xargs kill -9
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-2exipick -zi | xargs exim -Mrm
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-2ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/\(.*\):.*/\1/" | xargs gedit
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