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Commands using xargs

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xargs -P 3 -n 1 <COMMAND> < <FILE_LIST>
2011-07-25 22:53:32
User: h3xx
Functions: xargs
Tags: multicore xargs parallel
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Multi-thread any command

For instance:

find . -type f -name '*.wav' -print0 |xargs -0 -P 3 -n 1 flac -V8

will encode all .wav files into FLAC in parallel.

Explanation of xargs flags:

-P [max-procs]: Max number of invocations to run at once. Set to 0 to run all at once [potentially dangerous re: excessive RAM usage].

-n [max-args]: Max number of arguments from the list to send to each invocation.

-0: Stdin is a null-terminated list.

I use xargs to build parallel-processing frameworks into my scripts like the one here: http://pastebin.com/1GvcifYa

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find -L /proc/`ps aux | grep [f]lash | awk '{print $2}'`/fd/ | xargs file -L | grep Video | awk '{sub(/:/, ""); print $1}' | xargs vlc
2011-07-24 17:53:46
User: tuxcanfly
Functions: awk file find grep xargs
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Play flash videos in VLC

If you used to do `vlc /tmp/Flash*`, but no longer can't, this is for you.

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gpg --list-sigs | sed -rn '/User ID not found/s/^sig.+([a-FA-F0-9]{8}).*/\1/p' | xargs -i_ gpg --keyserver-options no-auto-key-retrieve --recv-keys _
2011-07-22 16:31:25
User: lingo
Functions: gpg sed xargs
Tags: GPG sed fetch
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Fetch all GPG keys that are currently missing in your keyring

For instance, if people have signed your key, this will fetch the signers' keys.

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curl -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
2011-07-21 15:57:21
User: laniner
Functions: awk uniq xargs
Tags: sort sed awk xargs grep curl download images
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Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use

curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip

instead of

curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com
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find / -name "*.xls" -print0 | xargs -0 rename .xls .ods {}
2011-07-18 12:48:49
User: jagjit
Functions: find rename xargs
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Command to rename multiple file in one go

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.

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find . -iname "*.mp3" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv {} /new/path/to/mp3/{}
2011-07-18 05:28:32
User: paulochf
Functions: find mv xargs
Tags: files move folder subtree
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Move mp3 files to another path with existing subtree structure

Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac

1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3

2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8853/copy-selected-folder-found-recursively-under-src-retaining-the-structure

3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: this command

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SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null
2011-07-06 08:21:58
User: moogmusic
Functions: du find sed sort xargs
Tags: size directory directory size,du
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List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format.

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find . -name '*.java' -o -name '*.xml' | grep -v '\.svn' | xargs wc -l
2011-06-30 12:45:40
User: ewilson
Functions: find grep wc xargs
Tags: find grep wc
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Count the lines of source code in directory, ignoring files in generated by svn

There's nothing particularly novel about this combination of find, grep, and wc, I'm just putting it here in case I want it again.

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git branch -a | grep "remotes/origin" | grep -v master | awk -F / '{print $3}' | xargs -I % git clone -b % git://github.com/jamesotron/DevWorld-2010-Cocoa-Workshop %
2011-06-29 00:13:47
User: evandrix
Functions: awk grep xargs
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Clone all remote branches of a specific GitHub repository
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pidof httpd | sed 's/ / -p /g' | xargs strace -fp
2011-06-28 09:53:19
User: daniele
Functions: pidof sed strace xargs
Tags: debug apache strace
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See what apache is doing without restarting it in debug mode
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printf "%02d:%02d\n" $(curl -s "http://search.twitter.com/search?from=zurvollenstunde&rpp=1" | grep -E '(Es ist jetzt|ago)' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;s/[^[:digit:]]//g' | xargs )
2011-06-19 18:16:00
User: torrid
Functions: grep printf sed xargs
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Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

Calc the rough time from Twitter. Now with leading Zeroes.

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curl -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#\ #:#'
2011-06-18 04:27:06
User: torrid
Functions: grep sed xargs
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Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

This combines @zurvollenstunde's hourly tweets and the "n minutes ago" from Twitter search.

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ps -fu userid | awk '/userid/{print $2}' | xargs kill
2011-06-16 12:20:19
User: unxscorob
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: awk
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all out

to be executed from root. this works well on most commercial unix systems, have not tried on linux systems.

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/bin/ls *.png | xargs -l1 -I {} convert {} -modulate 100,100,70 ../../icons/32x32/{}
2011-06-13 14:35:10
User: hute37
Functions: xargs
Tags: ImageMagick image xargs icons
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use ImageMagik to convert tint (hue rotation) of an icon set directory.

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/#modulate

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pgrep -lf gnome-panel | awk '{if ($2=="gnome-panel") print $1}' | xargs kill -9
2011-06-12 12:23:27
User: UnixNeko
Functions: awk kill xargs
Tags: Ubuntu gnome fix reload
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Reload gnome-panel

I have some problems with gnome panel which does not load completely leaving me without the actual GUI. This commands helps to kill the gnome-panel process then it should be relaunch automatically.

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curl -s http://example.com | grep -o -P "<a.*href.*>" | grep -o "http.*.pdf" | xargs -d"\n" -n1 wget -c
2011-06-09 14:42:46
User: b_t
Functions: grep wget xargs
Tags: xargs wget grep pdf html cur
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Get all files of particular type (say, PDF) listed on some wegpage (say, example.com)

This example command fetches 'example.com' webpage and then fetches+saves all PDF files listed (linked to) on that webpage.

[*Note: of course there are no PDFs on example.com. This is just an example]

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find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | xargs grep -i -H "search phrase"
2011-06-05 23:27:30
User: jblaine
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep
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Search recursively to find a word or phrase in certain file types, such as C code

Original submitter's command spawns a "grep" process for every file found. Mine spawns one grep with a long list of all matching files to search in. Learn xargs, everyone! It's a very powerful and always available tool.

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dpkg -l | sed '/^rc/!d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' | xargs -r sudo apt-get -y purge
2011-06-05 09:19:27
User: plasticdoc
Functions: sed sudo xargs
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Purge application's residual config & orphans
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find / -name core | xargs /bin/rm -f
2011-06-02 14:34:39
User: ctyndall
Functions: find xargs
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Find and remove files
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hg st --added -n |xargs hg revert
2011-06-01 19:54:41
User: yrcjaya
Functions: xargs
Tags: mercurial
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Undo Mercurial add before commit

Undo accidental file add to mercurial.

This command undo file adds to all recent adds

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git ls-files -z -d | xargs -0 git rm --
2011-05-19 14:17:28
User: tweak
Functions: rm xargs
Tags: git xargs
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git-rm for all deleted files, including those with space/quote/unprintable characters in their filename/path
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ls * | while read fin;do fout=$(echo -n $fin | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e);if [ "$fout" != "$fin" ];then echo "mv '$fin' '$fout'";fi;done | bash -x
2011-05-18 07:24:54
User: pawelb1973
Functions: bash echo ls read sed xargs
Tags: bash sed xa urldecod
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urldecoding

urldecode files in current directrory

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cat /proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}' | grep "^$MOUNTPOINT" | sort -r | xargs umount
2011-05-17 05:54:42
User: boni
Functions: awk cat grep sort xargs
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umount --rbind mount with submounts

Original: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194342

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find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs cat | sed -re ':top /\/\*.*\*\// { s/\/\*.*\*\///g ; t top }; /\/\*/ { N ; b top }' | awk '$0 !~ /^[\t[:space:]]*($|(\/\/)|(#))/' | wc -l
2011-05-05 06:12:34
User: andrehgw
Functions: awk cat find sed top wc xargs
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How many lines in your PHP project without comments

An advanced possibility to count the lines of code like in #8394

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find -name *.\[c\|h\] | xargs wc -l
2011-05-02 21:18:35
User: pescio
Functions: find wc xargs
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How many lines in your c project?

it recursively searches your project's directories and sum the lines of every source [.c or .h]. Then it gives you the total.

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