{"id":462,"date":"2015-12-12T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2015\/12\/12\/20-xargs-commands-examples-in-linux-unix\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T04:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T04:23:41","slug":"20-xargs-commands-examples-in-linux-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/20-xargs-commands-examples-in-linux-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tutorials: xargs commands examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3174 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xargs-commands-examples-in-.png\" alt=\"xargs-commands\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xargs-commands-examples-in-.png 600w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xargs-commands-examples-in--300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under Development<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The xargs command is extremely useful when we combine it with other commands.This tutorials explains the usage of xargs command using few simple examples.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Xargs Basic Example<\/div>\n<div>The xargs command (by default) expects the input from stdin, and executes \/bin\/echo command over the input. When you execute xargs without any argument, or when you execute it without combining with any other commands. you get Welcome message<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&gt; xargs<\/div>\n<div>Hi,<\/div>\n<div>Welcome to TGS.Hi, Welcome to TGS.<\/div>\n<div>After you type something, press ctrl+d, which will echo the string back to you on stdout as shown below.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Specify Delimiter Using -d option<\/div>\n<div>Delimiters can be applied so that each character in the input is taken literally using -d option in xargs.In the following example, when you use the -d\\n, it will preserve newline delimiter in the output, and display the output exactly as it was typed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&gt; xargs -d\\n<\/div>\n<div>Hi,<\/div>\n<div>Welcome to TGS.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Limit Output Per Line Using -n Option<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By default as explained earlier, xargs displays whatever comes to its stdin as shown below.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&gt; echo a b c d e f| xargs<\/div>\n<div>a b c d e f<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&gt; echo a b c d e f| xargs -n 3<\/div>\n<div>a b c<\/div>\n<div>d e f<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the following example, we used -n 3, which will display only 3 items per line in the xargs output.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. Delete Files that has White-space in the Filename<\/div>\n<div>&gt; find . -name &#8220;*.c&#8221; -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Example<\/div>\n<div># fild \/usr\/preserve \u2013mtime +30 \u2013exec rm \u2013f {} \\;<\/div>\n<div>is equivalent to&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div># find \/usr\/preserve \u2013mtime +30 \u2013print | xargs rm \u2013f<\/div>\n<div># find \/usr\/preserve \u2013size +1024 \u2013print | xargs \u2013n20 rm \u2013f<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Development The xargs command is extremely useful when we combine it with other commands.This tutorials explains the usage of xargs command using few simple examples. 1&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4957],"tags":[378,632,460,1274,169,1271,1272,1273,1276,1275],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-commands","tag-examples","tag-linux","tag-linux-xargs-command","tag-unix","tag-xargs","tag-xargs-command","tag-xargs-command-examples","tag-xargs-command-line","tag-xargs-commands-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29692,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/29692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}