Questions tagged [xargs]
A command that constructs an argument list for a command from text given as xargs' standard input (or read from a specified file) thus allowing execution on the results of a search, for example. It is provided by the findutils package
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find special characters in filenames and copy them into new folder. filenames may contain weird non ascii characters and special ones
I like to copy all files with special character "｜" in filenames (not the pipe one) into a folder.
However, i have several problems cause filenames may include ascii and not ascii characters,...
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Performant sort files into subdirectories by content of metafile
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I want to move files from a directory into sub directories by data out of a metadata file.
There are groups of files like <name>.<extension>. Each group ...
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grep command to get file list with concatenated custom text
I am trying to list of files' names with custom text(my another command) with it. I am using below command:
grep -rl --include=*.php --include=*.html --include=*.js 'ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/...
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get xargs to run a command once for each input instead of once with every input
I thought I could run the following
find ./ -iname "*\.mkv" | xargs -d "\n" ffprobe -show_streams -i
to get codec information for each file, but it appears xargs is trying to pass ...
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How to change script for deleting files while names misses symbols?
I am trying remove files by names according this answer
How to delete files listed in a text file
But get following error:
rm: cannot remove 'var/Resources/Images/fd29d33d.jpg'$'\r': No such file or ...
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Output of find | xargs not redirecting to log file
I'm developing a Bash script which cleans up old data files periodically, and right now everything works except for the log file I'm trying to generate so I can see what it did.
The structure I'm ...
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How to move a matched id of mat files in different folder
I have Matlab (.mat) files in a particular folder. In a text document, I have some IDs list marked as 0 and 1. First I need to match the IDs and separate the mat files that are marked as '1'.
For your ...
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Delete files not matching pattern using xargs
The following command is from https://www.tecmint.com/xargs-command-examples/ the example #9. It is to delete files not matching *gz from current directory.
$ find . -type f -not -name '*gz' -print0 | ...
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nohup can't save the pid of the process into file with xargs command
In the script that I am building I am having problem saving the pid to file.
If run in the terminal the command below:
nohup mvn spring-boot:run > $HOME/logs/app.log 2>&1 & echo $! > $...
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How to add .sh extension to script files in Linux
I have a dozen of files without extention, and I need to add .sh to all the files are a script Bourne-Again shell.
How do you achevie that without using sed, awk,...
I located the files like so:
file *...
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Need to move files found using grep into a folder
As part of a University course, I'm trying to reclusively search for a string in a list of 500 files, and then copy those items found into a new folder.
I can find the files without a problem using
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Linux Command [Requirement] [duplicate]
Can anyone tell me what this command means?
I've seen it in a tutorial but can't get it well.
find . -type f | xargs file
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How can I pass command output as first argument to next command
I am using Virtualenv in Python, and I have to execute the pip command with sudo because of windows filesystem... executing sudo pip executes the pip outside virtualenv ... so im directly executing ...
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How to count files separated by null characters, as returned by; find . -type f -print0?
Extract from man find:
-print0
True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character (instead of the newline character that -print uses). This allows file names that ...
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Error when trashing oldest files in a directory. (gio trash error when used with xargs)
In 18.04 I was able to find and trash all but the newest n (e.g. 8) files in a directory with:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort -r | sed 1,8d | xargs -d \n gio trash
When I try this in a freshly ...
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Copying a list of test/path/to/files to list of prod/path/to/files
I would like to copy a list of files in the form test/path/to/file/filename.xyz to their corresponding production path prod/path/to/file/filename.xyz. If the test path and the prod path are the same ...
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How to pass list of names to be searched by grep using xargs?
I have a text file containing names (nameslist.txt) and I want to read them using cat and pipe the result with xargs to a grep command, so that grep checks the existence of each name that it receives ...
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Script to generate a list of urls from a list of authors
I need to take a list of authors names of which may consist from 1 to 4 words like this
Osho
Hartmann Nicolai
Bird Robert Montgomery
Coates Ta-Nehisi
and generate URLs like this
site.com/word1+word+...
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How to make xargs execute in parallel but show complete output of a single instance at a time?
I am running some query commands in remote host with xargs in parallel which is working efficiently and very well but I have some problem in finding in which host I am getting the query from.
Right ...
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Unzip a .zip file to all directories that contain a .php file that contains the text “house” inside?
How to unzip a .zip file to all directories that contain a .php file that contains the text "house" inside?
Something like:
grep -rl --include='index.php' 'house' /directory/path/of_the_index_file* |...
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Removing certain file types that do not contain the hostname in the file name
I am doing a file deployment for multiple machines per site, so it is much easier for me to zip all the files once and deploy to every machine. However I would like to remove the config for all the ...
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xargs: invalid option -- 'o'
I was trying to execute this command to fix yet another error (Unable to use a TTY - input is not a terminal or the right kind of file):
kubectl get pods -n foobar | grep baz | awk '{print $1}' | ...
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xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
I'd like to count all the ordinary file on home directory with commands:
$ find ~ -type f | xargs echo | wc -w
xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the ...
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"-bash: /usr/bin/rename: Argument list too long" [duplicate]
I would like to rename files within each sub-directory by adding the name of the sub-directory. Following the answer from Rename files by adding their parent folder name, I tried:
rename 's/(.*)\//$...
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How to list all files where the first line is a blank line
I would like to find all the Java files that have a blank line as the first line of the file. I have the following which simply outputs the first line (and filename) of each file into the output file ...
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find: paths must precede expression: )xargs [duplicate]
mkdir dregsfolder
find /home/tony/Desktop/unsorted_files/ -maxdepth 1 -not \( -type d -or -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.gif" -or -iname "*.docx" \)xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty mv /home/tony/Desktop/...
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How to copy files from a folder using the find command with the -exec action, or with xargs, to another folder
I'd like to use the find command with the -exec action with the plus (+) sign (for efficiency), or with xargs to copy files from one directory to another.
The following answer did not work for me.
I'm ...
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create a file in each subdirectory and write its path into it
I'm studying Linux and I've found an interesting exercise. Create a number of directories in ~ (abc, abc/def, abc/xyz, abc/def/ghi/123, abc/def/ghi/456), which is an easy task. After that create a ...
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What is the difference between find with -exec and xargs?
trying to learn Bash scripting I want to execute some command on all files below my current directory that satisfy a certain condition. Using
find -name *.flac
Specifically I want to convert .flac ...
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Can't rename each 'file' to 'file.text' (using xargs)
I have received a task to do these commands on a text file:
Choose each second field from the file
Sort and choose first 3 unique values
Print the contents of each value.text while redirecting ...
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Remove files and words
In the moment, when I run git status, I got
modified: loanwolf/alerts/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo
modified: loanwolf/alerts/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
modified: loanwolf/...
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Read a URL from a file and open it in a Firefox tab
PreTabs.txt is a file I have on my desktop, and it just contains the line
google.com
I want to pipe the content of that file into Firefox so that it will open the URL in a new tab.
If you execute ...
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Multithread downloading
I have 464 links in txt file, and i want to download them as fast as it is possiblle.
Each url is a link to json file.
TXT File:
http://textuploader.com/ddgry
i ve tried cat urls | xargs -n 1 -P ...
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How can I solve "unmatched double quote" error using dbus-monitor in combination with xargs?
To intercept (notify-osd) notifications on Linux (Ubuntu), I am using the dbus-monitor script below. Subsequently, the script runs another script (/opt/nonotifs/nonotifs/silent) with the intercepted ...
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deleting folders with spaces in their names using xargs [duplicate]
Why can't xargs delete directories with spaces in their names, and how to fix that?
76 find . -type d |xargs rm -rf
77 rm -rf fire\ hydrant/
78 rm -rf wine\ glass/
79 rm -rf tennis\ racket/
80 ...
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How to pass to tar.gz a file after rename using xargs?
I'm trying to rename log files and make tar them as 'tar.gz', I ended with below command but it doesn't get the renamed file name from STDIN (output of mv command) and it causes the tar command to ...
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What does "xargs grep" do?
I know the grep command and I am learning about the functionalities of xargs, so I read through this page which gives some examples on how to use the xargs command.
I am confused by the last example,...
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Difference between "xargs" and command substitution?
In many cases I use command substitution instead of xargs. For example rm $(ls) is the same as ls | xargs rm
What really are the differences between them?
I think one of the differences is that ...
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Does gzip accept stdin?
When i pipe to gzip it can not accept stdin i should using xargsto convert stdin to argument
$ls
1.txt
$ls |xargs gzip && ls
1.txt.gz
every thing is ok . but when i want to compress a cpio ...
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How do I fix my bash command to make a year-based hierarchy of my photos using symlinks?
I'm new to bash and I'm having problems with using variables in xargs I think.
imanuel@orangepipc:~$ find /media/et10000 -name '*' -exec file {} \; | grep -o -P '^.+: \w+ image' | cut -d':' -f1 | ...
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Why does not pipe work with 'find' and 'ls'
Why does not pipe work with 'find' and 'ls'
If I do find . -name *foo* | ls -lah , it does a ls on $PWD and not the output of find.
The solution however is find . -name *foo* | xargs -r ls -alh or ...
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How can I copy all files and folders from one directory to another with similar structure with `find` and `xargs`?
For example, I use find command find /usr/share/icons -iname 'foxitreader*' find the files:
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/FoxitReader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/FoxitReader.png
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Elegant way of copying list of directories to target directory
Background: I have started using beets for managing my music collection. It uses the command line as the primary interface. The command beet ls -ap for example emits a list of paths (folders) that ...
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fswatch | while read | xargs running command twice
Thanks in advance for any advice
I'm working on an fswatch command to launch a script when files hit the Downloads folder.
fswatch --event Created Downloads/ | (while read x; do echo $x | xargs -0 ...
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Troubles piping echo output to xargs script for mv command
and thank you in advance for any advice.
I'm working on a script that will automatically sort my downloads. The script is very simple, and running it manually has the intended effect. The problem I'm ...
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make clean in several subdirectories
I want to clean several (>20) subdirectories with make clean. I thought about someting like this:
find ./ -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs "make clean"
but it doesn't work. Could you please help me?
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Command to change permissions only on files not directories
I have the following command
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
which would successfully change to 644 the permissions on all files in .,
provided that the filenames contained no embedded ...
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Bash Command Arguments ${...}
I noticed this type of command argument in a bash script:
node ${debug?--nocrankshaft --nolazy --nodead_code_elimination --debug-brk=15454} app.js
I am wondering what ${....} means?
How is it used?...
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Finding, moving and removing in Ubuntu
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-62-generic x86_64)
I have a directory like the following:
~/total/
test1/
test1.txt
some_other_file_i_dont_care.py
test2/
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Piping find -name to xargs results in filenames with spaces not being passed to the command
Normally to remove files with spaces in their filename you would have to run:
$ rm "file name"
but if I want to remove multiple files, e.g.:
$ find . -name "*.txt" | xargs rm
This will not delete ...
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