Renaming Files with xargs

Syntax of `xargs` multiple command in Linux

command1 | xargs [options] command2...

Understanding of xargs

Xargs is the versatile command-line utility that reads data from the standard input (stdin) and executes a specified command with the input as arguments. It is very useful for scenarios where a list of items needs to be processed by another command....

Deleting files with xargs Command:

Xargs command also deletes the specific file extension files. We can find the specific file using the find command and pass the find command output to the xargs command using the pipes. See the following steps:...

Renaming Files with xargs

Suppose you wan to rename all files with a “.txt” extension to have a “.php” extension. You use find command with xargs and mv for this task. Follow the following steps....

Xargs with three arguments

We can also used xargs with three arguments. In this example, we will see, how we can do this. See the following steps...

Remove Delimeter

We can also remove delimiter using the xargs command. In this example, we are going to remove delimiter in the command using xargs command. Follow the following steps....

Conclusion

Xargs is very useful command line utility that can used day to day task. In this article , we have almost explained various multiple command runs with xargs. There are more example of this amazing tool. This is useful for processing multiple items in a list with a single command....