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Running multiple commands with xargs

September 21, 2022 by Tarik

cat a.txt | xargs -d $’\n’ sh -c ‘for arg do command1 “$arg”; command2 “$arg”; …; done’ _ …or, without a Useless Use Of cat: <a.txt xargs -d $’\n’ sh -c ‘for arg do command1 “$arg”; command2 “$arg”; …; done’ _ To explain some of the finer points: The use of “$arg” instead of % … Read more

Make xargs execute the command once for each line of input

September 17, 2022 by Tarik

The following will only work if you do not have spaces in your input: xargs -L 1 xargs –max-lines=1 # synonym for the -L option from the man page: -L max-lines Use at most max-lines nonblank input lines per command line. Trailing blanks cause an input line to be logically continued on the next input … Read more