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Notes on xargs usages
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Useful flags

  • -t outputs what it's going to perform before performing it
  • -I replaces occurrences of the argument with whatever is piped into it

Piping multiple commands

cat file.txt | xargs sh -c "<command>; <commandtwo>"

Replace with arguments

cat file.txt | xargs -I "{}" sh -c "cd {}; <command_in_dir>"
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