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Enter a command. For example: chisel, doxygen, git rev parse.

xargs

 
Execute a command with piped arguments coming from another command, a file, etc. The input is treated as a single block of text and split into separate pieces on spaces, tabs, newlines and end-of-file. More information: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/xargs.html.
 
  • Run a command using the input data as arguments:
     
    {{arguments_source}} | xargs {{command}}
     
  • Run multiple chained commands on the input data:
     
    {{arguments_source}} | xargs sh -c "{{command1}} && {{command2}} | {{command3}}"
     
  • Delete all files with a .backup extension (-print0 uses a null character to split file names, and -0 uses it as delimiter):
     
    find . -name {{'*.backup'}} -print0 | xargs -0 rm -v
     
  • Execute the command once for each input line, replacing any occurrences of the placeholder (here marked as _) with the input line:
     
    {{arguments_source}} | xargs -I _ {{command}} _ {{optional_extra_arguments}}
     
  • Parallel runs of up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1. If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as possible at a time:
     
    {{arguments_source}} | xargs -P {{max-procs}} {{command}}

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