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.
There are many uses of “xargs” with multiple commands. Here, we are demonstrating some examples of xargs.
Creating Directories from a “echo” command
We can generate multiple folders or files using the echo command with xargs command. There are the following steps for making the folders using the xargs command.
- Print the name of the folder using the echo command and serve as input for the subsequent commands.
- Pipe the output of the echo command to the xargs command with mkdir command. For example
echo "one two three" | xargs mkdir
Output
Running multiple commands with xargs
Xargs is a command utility in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to build and execute commands from standard input which can be the output of the other command or data files. In this article, we will see how to run multiple commands with xargs.
Table of Content
- Syntax of `xargs` multiple command in Linux
- Understanding of xargs
- Deleting files with xargs Command:
- Renaming Files with xargs
- Xargs with three arguments
- Remove Delimeter