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Thanks guys to all the reply. Really appreciate it. again my apologies.

I did read the man page for xargs but i don't have the basis to compare it with |.
im sorry bout the thread title, i didn't know it wasn't allowed im a real newbie here.

Hi guys,
Im trying to figure out what is the difference between using a | and the command xargs ... examples of usage:

1) ls * | wc -w => this gives you the number of files in the current...