Hey, that's a good idea, use cat to join multiple argument sources.
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Originally Posted by fubaya
xargs can take input from both a file and arguments at the same time, the downside is that it always puts arguments first
That's right, xargs works perfectly when inserting arguments at the end of the command.
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Originally Posted by fubaya
To put arguments on the end, it looks like this is the only option.
That would work in my example (only one extra argument was used: 'bye'), but multiple arguments would be joined due to the "\n" being the delimiter. This can be easily solved echoing a line for each argument:
Too bad we don't have (AFAIK) a join function (like Python's str.join), we could have written this pretty neat solution:
Hi there,
I am trying to move around 3000 files from one directory to another. The mv command is complaining from too many arguments. I tried to use the xargs command but with no luck. Could some body provide help?
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I discovered that GNU's xargs has a -P option to allow its processes to run in parallel. Great! Is this a GNU thing, or is it supported by other platforms as well? (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to RCP the files from remote server to local server.
Also the RCP has to run in parallel. However using 'xargs' retrives 2 file names during each loop. How do we restrict to only one file name using xargs and loop till remaining files.
I use the below code for... (2 Replies)
hi
Could any one please tell me the option using which we can run multiple commands using xargs
I have list of files, I want to run dos2unix and chmod at one shot on them
I tried google n searched man pages but couldnt really find the solution , please help
right now im doing this
ls... (4 Replies)
Dear all ,
any suggest on xargs to combine from (1.txt and 2.txt) to output.txt ?
thanks a lot.
1.txt
0123 BUM-5M BUM-5M 93490481 63839
0124 BUM-5M BUM-5M 112112 ... (3 Replies)
Using the bash shell I'm trying to either create a command for the command line or a script that will show netstat info for a given process name. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:$ ps aux |grep catalina |grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
5132
$ netstat -nlp |grep 5132
(Not all processes... (11 Replies)
Hello, I need some help with xargs
$ ls
aaa bbb ccc ddd$ ls | xargs -I{} ls -la {}
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 aaa
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 bbb
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 ccc
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxx xx 0 May 30 20:04 dddit's possible to have output like this with... (3 Replies)
Hi,
can anyone tell me in detail ?
what the following do in detail ?
I am trying to get a largest number in a list
Thanks
Tao
LARGEST=$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | sort -nr | tail -1) (3 Replies)