Questions tagged [xargs]
utility in Unix-like operating systems for passing large numbers of arguments to programs that can only take a small number of arguments
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Use tmux attach with xargs
I'd like to create an alias that lets me browse all of my tmux windows with FZF and then attach that single window. What I have so far:
tmux list-windows -t main -F '#{session_name}:#{window_name}' | ...
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Find and rename first result in linux?
I have try using this commanline.
find *.txt | head -1 | xargs -0 mv *.txt test.txt
i receive.
mv: target ‘02.txt\n’ is not a directory
What wrong :(?
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How to get line number in xargs?
I want to upload some files to machines in parallel. There's a list of hosts and a list of files that should be uploaded by index: 1.txt goes to hostOne, 2.txt goes to hostTwo etc. Here's what I try ...
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using xargs pass arguments to sub shell with pipe
I want to rename a number of files. I think I can use xargs to do it.
find ./ -name "upload.log-*"
./upload.log-20180622.gz-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-20180624.gz-20180626.gz
./upload.log-...
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Pass command output as argument in grep
I want to compare two text files for changes line by line. If the files are store locally I know I can do it with
grep -Fxvf file1 file2
I have a problem because file 2 is in Hadoop File System. I ...
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Replacing a line in multiple files
I have a list of files and corresponding line numbers where I want to perform the substitution:
s/LOG.error/LOG.warn
There are other places where this might occur and don't want to disturb those ...
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How to move the folders to new directory based on their match in csv file?
In my present directory I have many folders like F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10.
I have a csv file "dan.csv" in the present directory which has a column with folder names.
csv file looks ...
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How to pipe a single item from a command output into another command?
Basic example using grep (note that grep would not be my only use-case for this):
$ grep -Irl "foo"
path/to/directory/help.js
path/to/directory/config.js
path/to/directory/task.js
Now I want to open ...
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Specify a list of files as input into pdftk
I have a list of files that I need to specify as input to pdftk so it will concatenate them in the order specified. I don't see an input file list as an option in the pdftk man page, but perhaps ...
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Find get the files I want,the pipe to xargs and Tar don't
I'm using the following command line:
find . -mtime -15 -mtime 0 -print0 | xargs -0 tar cjvf /home/user/adjuntos.tar.bz2
The left side of the pipe works like a charm, but the right side of the ...
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find a file and send some text to it
I would like to find a file in folder /opt and send some text to it. I tried the following syntax:
sudo find /opt -name filename-*.conf | xargs -I '{}' echo "text_to_send" > '{}' \;
Unfortunately,...
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What does this do? `Find … -type d|xargs chmod 770`
What does these two lines do?
find /backup/folder -type d|xargs chmod 770
find /backup/folder -type f|xargs chmod 660
I googled around, but can't figure out what d|xargs and f|xargs does.
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Cannot make xargs construct to work
I have a strange problem with xargs.
I have an xargs construct which does not work, even though
when I echo the command, it works perfectly.
My one liner is the following:
exiftool -p ...
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ssh into a machine and search for process, kill using xargs
I am doing this,
guastest@iridium06.psc ~> ssh <machine> jps | gawk '$2 == "<process>" {print $1}' | xargs kill
kill: sending signal to 75797 failed: No such process
guastest@iridium06....
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Add text to list of files
I'm trying to use xargs to manipulate a set of files.
A file called filelist.txt contain the file names
john
paul
george
ringo
steve
I can create all these files with this command:
cat filelist....
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xargs on windows: No such file or directory
I wanted to resync the tags on my local git repository with the ones on our remote server, using this answer provided on StackOverflow:
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
git fetch --tags
I've got git ...
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oldest to newest file in directory tree and delete each file interactively
In the step 1, I am trying 'find' the oldest file in directory tree, which I solved by following this question.
Now I want to use xargs to delete interactively from oldest to newest.
Since this ...
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Multiple read from a txt file in bash (parallel processing )
Here is a simple bash script for HTTP status code
while read url
do
urlstatus=$(curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code}' "${url}" --max-time 5 )
echo "$url $...
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Piped xargs doesn't execute the command
I want to monitor nginx access.log for malformed requests and notify myself about such cases.
To do this i have written following command:
tail -n0 -f access.log | grep --line-buffered '\{' | ...
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Use xargs on file or content that contains quotes/single quotes
I am having difficulty using xargs with files with ', is there a way to by pass this problem?
$ find . | xargs -I FILE echo FILE
xargs: unterminated quote
file name
$ ls
mike's ...
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How to generate a list of URLs in bash?
How can I generate a list of URLs in bash so that I can pipe them to xargs and then to curl?
http://somewebsite.com/{}.file
where {} is a number.
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How to launch multiple urls per process with cURL?
I am trying to download a list of URLs with cURL with multiple URLs per process. The following works but it returns a weird result if the xargs -L parameter is more than 1. I want to launch 8 ...
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Summing selective du sizes output
I am trying to find out how much space is consumed in total by files exceeding 50M in size. I am able to generate a list of file sizes with the following command:
find $PWD/soccer -maxdepth 50 -type ...
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How to rename multiple file name include subfolders?
For example i have the following files:
./dirA/fileA.png
./dirA/fileB.png
./dirA/fileC.png
./dirB/fileD.png
./dirB/fileE.png
./dirB/dirC/fileF.png
Is there any one line command or script to rename ...
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How to pass console input to xargs
I am trying to pass a file name as an argument to wc -l through xargs.
Below is the command I tried:
cat > xargs wc -l
I am getting below error
cat: invalid option -- 'l'
Try 'cat --help' for ...
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Xargs pass input to command that contains a pipe
As a vehicle to understand how to manipulate binding precedence with pipes, I'm trying to print the path of one file per directory - for every directory:
find $PWD -type d | xargs --delimiter "\n" -I%...
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bash xargs: same command gives different output
When I run
ls -1 *.a | xargs -I{} echo {} | sed 's/.a//'
The output is
1
2
3
When I run
ls -1 *.a | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo {} $(echo {} | sed 's/.a//')"
and the output is
1.a 1.a
2.a 2.a
3.a ...
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xargs with two command - mkdir and sed
I want to create catalogs and in the same line I want to change path and save it in the output file
I don't want to repeat code, so I tried:
cut -d ';' -f 1 tmp1 | tr '.' '/' | xargs -I % bash -c '...
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Search for string inside pdf with pdfgrep and outputs only file name
I'm using pdfgrep to search for a name inside a pdf:
pdfgrep -H 'Fatima Alves' RE/*
This commands will output the file name and the name:
RE/2011-01-RE_60822079000168_23022016_153923(1).PDF: Fatima ...
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How to use xargs and sed to pipe results to an array?
I'm pulling JSON from a REST endpoint using curl and then parsing it using the node package json to get at some of the JSON attributes, which I use later in some app configurations.
curl -s http://52....
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xargs misinterprets backslashes on windows
I am using gnuwin32 utilities on windows 7.
I want to pipe a file list to xargs to remove the files.
but if i pipe normal windows paths in then xargs interprets and removes the backslashes
dir /B /...
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why doesn't `find . -name '*.jar' | xargs jar tf` work?
I ran this
find . -name '*.jar' | xargs jar tf
hoping it would, find all the .jar files and execute jar tf on them (to view the content).
But it didn't seem to work!!!
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Pass all *.txt files to a Python script in parallel
I have a Python script that takes a .txt file and does something with it. I need a Linux shell command that will search for .txt files throughout the system and pass the .txt files to my Python script....
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Delete files if condition is met
I have the following directory tree:
/Directories/
/Directories/somedir/somefile.mkv
/Directories/somefile.rar
I'm trying to find a way to delete the .rar file if the .mkv file exists and is larger ...
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What does xargs do exactly in this case?
I recently came across the following two examples
Example 1: List only directories
ls -l | grep "^d"
Example 2: Search inside files
ls | xargs grep -i "Find Some String"
Now i have read from ...
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execute a command for each line of stdin immediately?
How do I execute a command for each line of stdin immediately?
Example:
(echo abc; sleep 10; echo def;) | ???
The xargs tool does not do the job because it blocks until it sees all the data (waits ...
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xargs; How & When?
What exactly is xargs?
How do you use it?
When would it be considered pragmatic, or otherwise appropriate to do so?
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Retrying failed command that is run with xargs
I have a script that rsync's files over in parallel using xargs and rsync daemon mode. I occasionally get errors with rsync due to writes happening on the source. I want to be able to retry the rsync ...
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How can I get xargs -I to work with large strings
Here's a contrived usage of xargs that I'm running on Mac OS X:
$ head -c 128 /dev/urandom | openssl base64 -A | xargs -I {} echo {}
rPeQFDtZ+icGeminAWK70Qmo/AQO5ZiZsusZuP/hZeFP2lId5efwhpy/...
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remove pattern with random numbers (digits) from php files
I am trying to remove or replace the digits ((random numbers)) in big numbers of php files using find & xargs and grep with sed etc .. the numbers looks like that
inside the php file
/web/...
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remove wayback toolbar code in bewteen lines
I am trying to remove Wayback toolbar code using some tools such as find & xargs and grep with sed etc
issue that the size of the html & php files it's over 7GB & as well as the pages ...
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how to move files that contain string using find, xargs, grep, in linux
i have many php files maybe over Three million..
how can i use grep with xargs and find with mv to find contain the string in files and move them to directory if they match.
I try like that
find . -...
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fswatch does not pass arguments to xargs
I'm starting using fswatch on os x. I've read tutorial, but example from there does not work for some reason.
I'm executing
fswatch /$HOME/Projects/utils/configs/.vimrc | xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} echo {}
...
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Delete all not jpeg files
I have exercise, in which I have to delete all files, which are not jpeg.
I tried find -type f |xargs file| grep -iv 'jpeg', but it doesn't work.
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How can I find a particular named file within a particular named directory that could be anywhere in file system?
I am trying to find a file within a directory where both the name of the file and the name of the directory are known. For example, say I want to find
"...don't know this part of file path stem).../...
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How to store data from different netcat connections in separate files?
I need a server that should receive data streams, store them in files and send further. Each connection should create a file with corresponding timestamp in file name, then write to it.
My solution:
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add new line after every end of file's contents while merging multiple files
I have written shell script to merge different file's contents I have created directories f1,f2,d1,d2 and files under them , I need to merge all files's contents : comand is
(find /home/ah5024331/f1 ...
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Can xargs evaluate $HOME?
When I type in
echo $HOME/Downloads | xargs cd
It correctly changes directory to $HOME/Downloads. Maybe that is because echo evaluates $HOME before piping to xargs.
However if I type
echo '$HOME/...
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How would one pipe from socat to sed to bc to xargs?
I have a server outputting some numbers, I'm reading them with socat, then using sed, I turn those numbers into some math equations, I run them with bc, then I need to pipe them into xargs.
socat -u ...
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Xargs: change working directory to file path before executing?
I have a large folder of RAR archives. There is a significant hierarchy of folder levels. I want to unRAR the entire collection of archives all at once.
I have the following one-liner, which will ...
