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Commands using xargs

Terminal - Commands using xargs - 521 results

ls *.jpg | awk -F'.' '{ printf "%s %04d.%s\n", $0, $1, $2; }' | xargs -n2 mv

2011-05-01 13:32:58

User: hute37

Functions: awk ls printf xargs

Tags: awk mv xargs

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Numeric zero padding file rename

rename file name with fixed length nomeric format pattern

ls | sed 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv

2011-04-30 10:56:35

User: pkufranky

Functions: ls sed xargs

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bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

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ls * | sed -e 'p;s/foo/bar/' | xargs -n2 mv

2011-04-30 00:21:10

User: windfold

Functions: ls sed xargs

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bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar.

foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1

barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2

fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo

NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'

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find /var/log -iregex '.*[^\.][^0-9]+$' -not -iregex '.*gz$' 2> /dev/null | xargs tail -n0 -f | ccze -A

2011-04-17 18:09:25

User: brejktru

Functions: find tail xargs

Tags: unix ccze

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View all new log messages in real time with color

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apt-cache search pidgin* | awk '{print$ 1}' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs aptitude -y install

2011-04-13 08:01:22

User: insaneisnotfree

Functions: apt awk tr xargs

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Install evertything with the prefix pidgin or wathever

Command to install everything on a debian based system with the prefix you indicate.

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echo **/* | xargs grep 'hoge'

2011-04-12 13:18:41

User: yukirin

Functions: echo grep xargs

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grep 'hoge' **/* => Argument list too long

if Argument list too long

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find -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 feh -d

2011-04-10 15:28:14

User: hendry

Functions: find xargs

Tags: picture images

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View all images

So you are in directory with loads of pictures laying around and you need to quickly scan through them all

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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

2011-04-07 22:58:02

User: kineticrick

Functions: file find grep xargs

Tags: find xargs symlinks

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Find broken symlinks

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svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {}

2011-04-05 15:00:49

User: windfold

Functions: awk diff tar xargs

Tags: bash svn awk xargs tar

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Create a tar of modified/added files since revision 1792.

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.

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find . -name '*.xml' -type f -print | xargs du -ch

2011-03-22 00:47:42

User: nathwill

Functions: du find xargs

Tags: find du type

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get disk usage sum for files of type

print sum of disk usage for filetype within current dir and subdirs

find . -type d -name .svn -prune -o -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 ...

2011-03-21 21:36:57

User: depesz

Functions: find xargs

Tags: find xargs dotfiles

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find files ignoring .svn and its decendents

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find . -type f ! -iwholename \*.svn\* -print0 [ | xargs -0 ]

2011-03-21 16:45:35

User: alustenberg

Functions: find xargs

Tags: find xargs dotfiles

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find files ignoring .svn and its decendents

for when find . -print | grep -v .svn | xargs doesnt cut it.

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ps -C apache o pid= | sed 's/^/-p /' | xargs strace

2011-03-15 08:46:33

User: depesz

Functions: ps sed xargs

Tags: awk token ps strace tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

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ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace

This is sample output - yours may be different.

ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print"-p " $2}' | xargs strace
Process 7313 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7395 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7396 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7397 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7398 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7399 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7401 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7403 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7448 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7468 attached - interrupt to quit
Process 7469 attached - interrupt to quit
attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): No such process
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 48000} <unfinished ...>
[pid  7395] poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=85, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 10, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7396] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7397] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7398] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7399] semop(1572864, {{0, -1, SEM_UNDO}}, 1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7401] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7403] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7448] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7468] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7469] poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1 <unfinished ...>
[pid  7313] <... select resumed> )      = 0 (Timeout)
[pid  7313] gettimeofday({1300139401, 36665}, NULL) = 0
[pid  7313] waitpid(-1, 0xffdc0a68, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = 0
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid  7313] gettimeofday({1300139402, 39688}, NULL) = 0
[pid  7313] waitpid(-1, 0xffdc0a68, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED) = 0
[pid  7313] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0} <unfinished ...>
Process 7313 detached
Process 7395 detached
Process 7396 detached
Process 7397 detached
Process 7398 detached
Process 7399 detached
Process 7401 detached
Process 7403 detached
Process 7448 detached
Process 7468 detached
Process 7469 detached

2011-03-14 21:45:22

User: px

Functions: awk grep ps xargs

Tags: awk token ps tokenizer

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easily strace all your apache processes

This one-liner will use strace to attach to all of the currently running apache processes output and piped from the initial "ps auxw" command into some awk.

locate munin | xargs rm -r

2011-03-14 11:47:00

User: strzel_a

Functions: locate rm xargs

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Delete all files from a locate output

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svn st | grep -e [MA] | egrep -ve '.project|.classpath|.properties|.sh|.number' | awk -F' ' '{ print $2}' | xargs svn ci -m "message"

2011-03-10 15:32:36

User: drunkcoder

Functions: awk egrep grep xargs

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this svn script will commit all files excluding those with extensions {.project .classpath .properties .sh .number} and those with Status Modified or Added {M or A}

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

2011-03-08 17:38:26

User: wilmoore

Functions: find grep rm sed sort xargs

Tags: release sort sed find xargs grep directories directory sorting capistrano, pruning prune cleaning

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Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD)

find . -name "*.java" -type f -perm +600 -print | xargs -I _ sh -c 'grep -q hexianmao _ && iconv -f gb2312 -t utf8 -o _ -c _ '

2011-03-08 13:02:25

User: Sunng

Functions: find iconv sh xargs

Tags: find xargs iconv

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Convert one's Java source file encoding

One of my friends committed his code in the encoding of GB2312, which broke the build job. I have to find his code and convert.

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2011-03-07 04:51:35

User: laputa

Functions: fc grep sed sort uniq xargs

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install package which provides some libraries in fedora

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'

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ps ax | egrep "*.exe|*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill

2011-03-01 09:48:47

User: coffeeaddict_nl

Functions: awk egrep ps xargs

Tags: kill wine exe

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kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

Look mah! All pipes

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xargs < [inputfile]

2011-03-01 07:47:18

User: felix001

Functions: xargs

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Remove new lines

--- www.fir3net.com ---

files -type f | xargs -n100 | while read l; do mkdir $((++f)); cp $l $f; done

2011-02-15 23:15:16

User: flatcap

Functions: cp mkdir read xargs

Tags: find xargs read mkdir cp

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Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory.

find creates the list of files

xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100

for each group, create a directory and copy in the files

Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)

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svn st | awk ' {if ( $1 == "?" ){print $1="",$0}} ' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs svn add

2011-02-09 14:02:54

User: unixmonkey17801

Functions: awk sed xargs

Tags: svn

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add all files not under version control to repository

This should handle whitespaces well and will not get confused if your filenames have "?" in them

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sed i"+" file.txt | xargs echo 0 |bc

2011-02-09 10:14:22

User: foolano

Functions: echo sed xargs

Tags: sum

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Compute the numeric sum of a file

In the file data.txt there is a single column of numbers. Sed adds a "+" between lines and xargs prepares the output for bc. The "echo 0" is to avoid to have a "+" at the beginning of the line.

find . -name 'spam-*' |xargs rm;find . -name 'spam-*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

2011-01-22 06:46:21

User: mancipar

Functions: find xargs

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/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

root@wow/var/spool/clientmqueue # rm spam-*

/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

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