Commands using xargs (769)
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0find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 md5sum | sort -k 1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate | sed -e 's/^[0-9a-f]*\ *//;'
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When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
0find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_' -
Sometimes cache-files or garbage gets added to your SVN repository. This is the way I normally clean up those when the actual files are already gone.
0svn stat | grep ^\! | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn del -
Doesn't depend on curl and doesn't use thumbnails as wallpaper (which has the unfortunate effect of only allowing imgur links)
0wget -O - http://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers.rss | grep -Eo 'http://i.imgur.com[^&]+jpg' | head -1 | xargs wget -O background.jpg -
Using a for loop, rename all files with .MP3 extension to .mp3. Show Sample Output
0find . -type f -name *.MP3 -print0 | xargs -0 -i rename .MP3 .mp3 {} -
0find . -iname ".svn" | xargs rm -r $1
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you could redirect output to /dev/NULL
0lsof -i tcp:22 | grep 192.168.10.10 | awk "{print $2}" |xargs kill -
0find -type l | xargs ls -l
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This simple command removes all the .svn directories recursively. Useful when you want to get a clean code excluding .svn files. Check what is getting delete through this command " find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs echo "
0find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs rm -rf -
This will check if there are any empty directories, or newly emptied directories, in a list of directories. It will then delete all of those directories. It works with gnu find and OSX/BSD find.
0for foo in <list of directories>; do while find $foo -type d -empty 2>/dev/null| grep -q "."; do find $foo -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir; done; done -
0find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"
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0git submodule status | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -P5 -n1 git submodule update --init
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You can also use gawk: ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9
0ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9 -
0find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'
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0find . -type f \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' \) | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt
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In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder
0ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder -
Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh
0find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x -
Couldn't make the other work so I made this
0curl -s http://boards.4chan.org/---/res/nnnnnn | grep -o -i 'File: <a href="//images.4chan.org\/[a-z]*\/src\/[0-9]*\.[a-z]\{3\}' | sed -r 's/File: <a href="\/\///' |xargs wget -
touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between: 201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00 201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00 then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file: find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last" pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command: | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation: rm first; rm last;
0touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last; -
0find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'
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In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
0sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm -
0find . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"
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0lsmod | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs modinfo | egrep '^file|^desc|^dep' | sed -e'/^dep/s/$/\n/g'
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Uses the --porcelain option, which is garanteed to be stable among git versions and configurations - also, is way easier to parse. Show Sample Output
0git status --porcelain | awk '{print $2}' | xargs git add -
This is the closest you can get to "reset printing system" from the command line. Giving credit back to J D McIninch from an apple forum back in 2009.
0lpstat -p | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs -I{} lpadmin -x {} - ‹ First < 16 17 18 19 20 > Last ›
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