Commands using xargs (769)
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make usable on OSX with filenames containing spaces. note: will still break if filenames contain newlines... possible, but who does that?!
1svn ls -R | egrep -v -e "\/$" | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn blame | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr -
Some computers these days don't have an HDD activity light, but they still have a useless caps-lock, so why not re-purpose that light to show HDD activity? Requires setleds and dstat and probably needs to run as root.
1dstat -d --nocolor --noheaders|xargs --max-args=2|while read status; do if [ "$status" == "0 0" ]; then setleds -L -caps < /dev/console; else setleds -L +caps < /dev/console; fi; done -
1git branch -r | awk '{print $1}' | egrep -v -f /dev/fd/0 <(git branch -vv | grep origin) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git branch -d
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Count your source and header file's line numbers. This ignores blank lines, C++ style comments, single line C style comments. This will not ignore blank lines with tabs or multiline C style comments.
1find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | grep -v "^ *$" | grep -v "^ *//" | grep -v "^ */\*.*\*/" | wc -l -
Do the unlock KDE screen saver locked session with lightdm display manager used in Kubuntu 12.10 +
1qdbus | grep kscreenlocker_greet | xargs -I {} qdbus {} /MainApplication quit -
first grep all href images then sed the url part then wget
1curl -s $1 | grep -o -i '<a href="//images.4chan.org/[^>]*>' | sed -r 's%.*"//([^"]*)".*%\1%' | xargs wget -
1brew cleanup -n | awk '{print $3}' | xargs du -s | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
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Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories Show Sample Output
1find . -name '*pdf*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt | head -20 -
Replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in current directory recursively
1grep -lr "foo" . | xargs sed -i "s/foo/bar/g" -
1find -type f | grep -v "^./.git" | xargs md5sum | md5sum
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Better than:
nodetool clearsnapshot1find /var/lib/cassandra/data -depth -type d -iwholename "*/snapshots/*" -mtime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf -
1zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot | xargs -n1 -t zfs destroy
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1( find ./ -name '*.rb' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l
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################################################################################ # get all modified files since last commit and zip them to upload to live server ################################################################################ # delete previous tar output file rm mytarfile.tar -rf #rm c:/tarOutput/*.* -rf # get last commit id and store in variable declare RESULT=$(git log --format="%H" | head -n1) # generate file list and export to tar file git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT $RESULT | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar # extract tar files to specified location tar -xf mytarfile.tar -C c:/tarOutput Show Sample Output
1git diff-tree -r --no-commit-id --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT COMMID_HASH | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar -
1git log origin/master..master --name-only --pretty="format:" | sort | uniq | xargs tar -rf mytarfile.tar
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Btrfs reports the inode numbers of files with failed checksums. Use `find` to lookup the file names of those inodes. The files may need to be deleted and replaced with backups.
1dmesg | grep -Po 'csum failed ino\S* \d+' | awk '{print $4}' | sort -u | xargs -n 1 find / -inum 2> /dev/null -
bash brace expansion, sequence expression Show Sample Output
1echo {-1..-5}days | xargs -n1 date +"%Y-%m-%d" -d -
1find . -iname "*.mp4" -print0 | xargs -0 mv --verbose -t /media/backup/
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1find . -name '*.jar' | xargs -l jar vtf | grep XXX.java
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1git branch -r | awk -F'/' '{print "git fetch "$1,$2}' | xargs -I {} sh -c {}
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You probably want to run `brew update` before you run this command Show Sample Output
1brew outdated | cut -f1 | xargs brew upgrade -
1python -c "import pip; print(' '.join([x.project_name for x in pip.get_installed_distributions()]))" | xargs sudo pip install -U
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Finds the date of the first commit in a git repository branch Show Sample Output
1git rev-list --all|tail -n1|xargs git show|grep -v diff|head -n1|cut -f1-3 -d' ' -
1a=$(b=$(($LINES/2));f() { for c in $(seq $b); do for i in $(seq $c);do echo x;done|xargs echo;done };paste <(f) <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f|tac|tr 'x' '-') <(f)|tr '\t' ' ');(cat <<<"$a"|tac;cat <<<"$a")|tr '-' ' '
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1sudo mysql -sNe 'show tables like "PREFIX_%"' DBNAME | xargs sudo mysqldump DBNAME > /tmp/dump.sql
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