Xargs Should Be In Your Command Line Toolbag

DistroTube β€’ July 18, 2021
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Xargs is an important shell utility to know because it allows you to execute to pass standard input as an argument to another command. While many command line programs allow standard input to be used as a parameter (things like grep, sed, awk etc.), many other programs do not allow for this (such as echo and rm). This is where Xargs comes in handy. REFERENCED: β–Ί https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? πŸ’° Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube πŸ’³ Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40distrotube%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=DistroTube&no_note=0&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest πŸ›οΈ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi πŸ‘• Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube DONATE CRYPTO: πŸ’° Bitcoin: 1Mp6ebz5bNcjNFW7XWHVht36SkiLoxPKoX 🐢 Dogecoin: D5fpRD1JRoBFPDXSBocRTp8W9uKzfwLFAu πŸ“• LBC: bMfA2c3zmcLxPCpyPcrykLvMhZ7A5mQuhJ SOCIAL PLATFORMS: πŸ—¨οΈ Mastodon: https://distrotoot.com/@derek πŸ‘« Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ πŸ“½οΈ LBRY/Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@DistroTube:2 DT ON THE WEB: πŸ•ΈοΈ Website: http://distrotube.com/ 🐿️ Gemini Capsule: gemini://distro.tube πŸ“ GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I USE: 🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/dis872 πŸ“½οΈ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/ 🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org 🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ 🎡 Ardour: https://ardour.org/ πŸ’» VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ πŸ—’οΈ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!