Commands using xargs (769)
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0find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 mogrify -scale 1280x960
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0ls -1 | sed 's/\(.*\)\.\(.*\)/\"&\" \"\1@2x\.\2\"/' | xargs -n2 mv
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0git diff --name-only origin/master.. | grep _spec.rb | xargs rspec
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Remove everything after the second "rev" to only display the duplicate filenames and their hashes.
0sha1sum * | sort | rev | uniq -df1 | rev | cut -d" " -f3 | xargs rm -
0docker ps -a | grep "Exited" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker rm
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tested on solaris 10
0ps -e | awk '$4~/<process name>/{print $1}' |xargs gcore -o ~/troubleshooting -
0first_command | xargs other_command
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Just added a little url encoding with sed - urls with spaces don't work well - this also works against instead of enclosure and adds a sample to show that you can filter against links at a certain domain Show Sample Output
0wget -q -O- http://www.yourfeed.com/rss | grep -o "<link[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://www.myfeed.com[ -~][^\"]*" | sed "s: :%20:g" | xargs wget -c -
0find ~/irclogs/ -type f -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort | cut -f2 | xargs -I {} sed -n "/^\-\-\-/ {x; /searched phrase/ p;x;h}; /searched phrase/ {H;};" {}
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finds all xml files greps them for extracts the bean id sorts the ids creates a list of distinct entries, a unique list of bean ids Show Sample Output
0find . -iname "*.xml" | xargs cat | grep '<bean[^>]\+id=' | sed 's/.*id="\([^"]\+\)".*/\1/g' | sort | uniq -u -
use fsnotify on linux, fswatch on OS-X
0fswatch -o my-script.sh | xargs -n1 ./my-script.sh -
If there are less than 10 folders, this script will not delete them
0find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'exclude_folder1' ! -name 'exclude_folder2' -type d -exec ls -tld {} \+ | tail +11 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -L 1 rm -rf -
Requirements: Google Authenticator is configured as per document (http://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/files/2015/02/VMW_15Q1_TD_Horizon-View-Google-Authenticator_021715_FINAL_EMonjoin.pdf) including the patch at the end of the document. Login as the user to be provisioned. su username Command will: 1. Silently provision a user for Google Authenticator (TOTP) 2. Remove the unnecessary (and unsecure) code that uses google.com to create the QR code in browser. 3. Decode URL (first instance) 4. Decode URL (second instance) 5. Create a QR code 6. Send email to an account with the QR Code attached User scans QR code with Google Authenticator.
0google-authenticator -tdfo -i "Company" -l "GAuth" -r 3 -R 30 -w 17 -Q UTF8 | cut -c 62- | sed -e's/%\([0-9A-F][0-9A-F]\)/\\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e | qrencode -o qrcode.png | sendemail -t user@domain.com -f sender@domain.com -u "QR" -a qrcode.png -
0wget -O - http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper | grep -Eo 'http://i.imgur.com[^&]+jpg' | shuf -n 1 | xargs wget -O background.jpg ; feh --bg-fill background.jpg
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NSFW - use this on personal laptops where you want your personal user to have all the groups Show Sample Output
0cut -f1 -d: /etc/group|xargs -n1 -I{} gpasswd -a $USERNAME {} -
1. No for-loop, but xargs. 2. Append "--" in git-reset HEAD command to deal with filenames contained leading hyphen/minus sign (-). 3. Add "--porcelain" option in git-status command for easy-to-parse format when scripting. 4. Add "--no-run-if-empty" option in xargs command to prevent you run it twice and accidentally reset all staged changes. 5. Use zero byte (NUL character) as line terminator instead of newline (\n) to make it more robust to deal with filename with whitespaces. pipe#1: git-status. pipe#2: Use "grep" to filter out "non-added" files. pipe#3: use "sed" to Trim out the leading three characters, reserve the filename. pipe#4: xargs + git-reset... p.s. The "HEAD" in git-reset can be omitted . And, maybe, the third part of this shell pipe (sed) has potential to be enhanced.
0git status --porcelain -z | grep -zZ '^A[ MD] ' | sed -z 's/^...//' | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty git reset HEAD -- -
0bleachbit -l | egrep 'cache|log' | xargs bleachbit -c
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Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output
0nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; } -
I used this to resolve runtime dependencies of an application to create self-contained tar-balls (e.g. PHP for Docker or Rkt) Requirements: - realpath - ldd - find - grep - sort - uniq - xargs
0for f in $(find . -name "*.so"); do ldd -v $(realpath $f) | grep -Eo "(/[a-z0-9\_.+-]+)*" | uniq | xargs -I % cp --parents % /tmp/build; done -
Useful for looking up and commits that you may have lost during a rebase or when rewriting some history.
0git fsck --lost-found | grep commit | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs git show -s --oneline -
list all directory sizes and sort by size
0du -ks * | sort -nr | cut -f2 | xargs -d '\n' du -sh -
Here's a quick way to clean up old xauth entries.
0xauth list | cut -f1 -d\ | xargs -i xauth remove {} -
Check that all websites on the current server are working as expected. This is a quick easy way to do that. Show Sample Output
0grep -h 'Server\(Name\|Alias\)' /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf | sed 's#\s*Server\(Name\|Alias\)\s*##g' | tr ' ' "\n" | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo {},`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" {}`' -
0docker images |grep '4 months' | awk '{print$3}' | xargs docker rmi
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Replace thread_link with the link of the thread you want to download images of.
0wget thread_link -qO - | sed 's/\ /\n/g' | grep -e png -e jpg | grep href | sed 's/href\=\"/http:/g' | sed 's/"//g' | uniq | xargs wget - ‹ First < 21 22 23 24 25 > Last ›
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