xargs documentation or tutorial?

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Can anybody please forward me a good xargs documentation or tutorial?

  • $nilesh
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There must be tons of examples in this forum on magical ideas to use xargs. I don't think any tutorial can be richer than a whole forum with live situations.

I figure you already read man xargs, right?

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i did read man page. but as usual lots of information with less example and usage?

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Search the forum then:

  1. Click the "Search" menu
  2. Go for Advanced Search
  3. Enter "xargs" as keywords
    4.Change "Show Results as" to "Posts"

There are lots of xargs usages there.

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look for a variable only in my python scripts:

find -name "*.py" | xargs grep --color "\<some_variable\>"

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Did you try Google already? Were all the result bad? xargs tutorial - Google Search