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Commands using xargs

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function whichpkg() { readlink -f "$(which $1)" | xargs --no-run-if-empty dpkg -S; }
2011-10-28 02:53:19
User: b_t
Functions: readlink xargs
Tags: xargs dpkg readlink
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Find out which debian package a command (executable) belongs to on debian-based distros

This revision to my command (command #8851) was called for when it failed to find the parent

package of 'rlogin', which is really a deep symbolic link to /usr/bin/ssh.

This revision fixes this newfound issue, while ensuring fixes of other older issues work too.

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/\ //g'
2011-10-25 21:46:36
User: lishuai860113
Functions: find rename xargs
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delete file name space

delete file name space

the rename is rename perl version

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unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}
2011-10-20 18:54:15
User: hk0i
Functions: awk rm xargs
Tags: awk xargs unzip rm
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un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them.

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grep -rlZ oldstring . | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/'
2011-10-18 19:14:02
User: thoughtcriminal
Functions: grep sed xargs
Tags: sed
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recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

Using -Z with grep and -0 with xargs handles file names with spaces and special characters.

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#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @
2011-10-14 13:28:49
User: kirdie
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep
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find&grep all in once

calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory

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for each in /usr/bin/*; do echo $each | sed 's/\/usr\/bin\///' | xargs touch; done
2011-10-13 19:14:34
User: evil
Functions: echo sed xargs
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Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

This will make a false directory with the same file names as whatever directory you choose. This is wise to use when testing scripts that alter contents, filenames, or move files. I wrote this after an OOPS I made when renaming a directory of JPGs, PNGs, PSDs that were mixed. I recommend this as I lost over 2000 vacation pictures and some graphics I designed for software and web sites. :(

NOTE: This only creates name copies, that data itself is not copied.

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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'
2011-10-06 08:11:25
User: erdeszt
Functions: grep rm sed xargs
Tags: svn sed xargs grep
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Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.

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LC_ALL=C diff -q dir1 dir2 | grep differ | awk '{ print $2, $4 }' | xargs -n 2 gvim --nofork -d
2011-09-06 11:50:33
User: brock
Functions: awk diff grep xargs
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Edit all different files from 2 directories with gvim in difference mode (gvim -d)

LC_ALL=C is here to always grep on "differ" whatever your language env.

xargs -n 2 to run gvim -d with 2 arguments

gvim --nofork to use only one instance of gvim

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find . -type f | xargs grep -n "Old Text" | tee filesChanged.txt | sed 's/:.*$//' | xargs sed -i 's/Old Text/New Text/g
2011-09-06 10:28:36
User: moogmusic
Functions: find grep sed tee xargs
Tags: log replace
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Find/Replace in a bunch of files and keep a log of the changes

This is a more concise answer to http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2011/09/episode-158-old-switcheroo.html in my opinion.

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find -iname \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdfgrep -i "my search text"
2011-09-05 15:31:35
User: vlf
Functions: find xargs
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Grep all your PDFs in a row

http://pdfgrep.sourceforge.net/

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svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz
2011-08-31 10:30:29
User: titus
Functions: cut tar tr xargs
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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

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find . -type f | xargs grep -l "string"
2011-08-30 13:22:42
User: Neo23x0
Functions: find grep xargs
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egrep -r replacement for UNIX systems

Finds a string in files recursively below the current directory on systems without the "egrep" and its "-r" functionality.

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grep -lr -e '<oldword>' * | xargs sed -i 's/<oldword>/<newword>/g'
2011-08-27 02:42:51
User: o0110o
Functions: grep sed xargs
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Search and Replace across multiple files

- grep for the word in a files, use recursion (to find files in sub directories), and list only file matches

-| xargs passes the results from the grep command to sed

-sed -i uses a regular expression (regex) to evaluate the change: s (search) / search word / target word / g (global replace)

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find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl
2011-08-26 14:58:51
User: mesuutt
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep
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Search recursively to find a word in certain file types

-sl : show just file names

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allVideos() { find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -iNf - | grep ": video/" | cut -d: -f1; }
2011-08-19 11:58:59
User: totti
Functions: cut file find grep xargs
Tags: video find grep mime
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Find all videos under current directory using MIME a.k.a not using extension

Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file.

This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path.

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find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}
2011-08-16 15:50:39
User: damage
Functions: find rm xargs
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find specified directory and delete it recursively including directories with spaces
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sort -R /usr/share/dict/british | grep -v -m4 ^\{1,10\}$ | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr "\n" " " | tr -d "'s" | xargs -0 echo
2011-08-16 10:11:21
User: takac
Functions: grep sort tr xargs
Tags: tr xkcd
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Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Doesn't use shuf, its much faster with "shuf -n4" instead of sort -R

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lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }
2011-08-15 03:10:58
User: h3xx
Functions: find ls sort xargs
Tags: sort find ls xargs function list
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Sorted, recursive long file listing

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too.

On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login:

LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto'

and

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

which works great.

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svn st | grep '^?' | sed -e 's/\?[[:space:]]*//' | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn add
2011-08-13 05:39:41
User: tekiomo
Functions: grep sed tr xargs
Tags: svn
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add all files not under version control to repository
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r
2011-08-10 07:38:51
User: kev
Functions: find rm xargs
Tags: find
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remove all CVS directories
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pgrep -u username php5-fcgi | xargs kill -9
2011-08-09 15:32:14
User: drucko
Functions: kill xargs
Tags: kill pkill process
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kills all php5-fcgi processes for user per name
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vim -p `grep -r PATTERN TARGET_DIR | cut -f1 -d: | sort | uniq | xargs echo -n`
2011-08-05 16:34:31
User: kovagoz
Functions: cut echo sort uniq vim xargs
Tags: vim grep
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Grep across a directory and open matching files in vim (one tab per file)

vim 7 required

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find . -type d|xargs tar rf ~/dirstructure.tar --no-recursion
2011-08-03 16:21:10
User: gdevarajan
Functions: find tar xargs
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Create a tar of directory structure only

The original suggestion did not work for me, when operating on folders located on an external mount (ie other than the root device) in Ubuntu. A variation using xargs does the trick.

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ipcs -ma | awk '/^m / { if ($9 == 0) { print $2 }}' | xargs -n 1 ipcrm -m
2011-07-26 15:53:59
User: keymon
Functions: awk ipcrm ipcs xargs
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Remove all unused shared memory segments for current user

It can work for message queue, semaphore set or shared memory just changing the parameter.

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locate -i yourfilename | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -lah | less
2011-07-26 13:00:39
User: unixmonkey23919
Functions: locate ls sed xargs
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do a full file listing of every file found with locate

Escapes spaces in paths.

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