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Editor to share with you how to use the xargs command in Linux, I believe most people do not know much about it, so share this article for your reference, I hope you can learn a lot after reading this article, let's go to know it!

1. When you use the rm command to delete many files, you may get an error message: "/ bin/rm Argument list too long-Linux". Xargs can be used to avoid this problem at this time.

Find ~-name * .log'-print0 | xargs-0 rm-f

Get all the files under / etc that end in .conf. There are several ways to achieve the following results. The following command is just to help you understand how to use the input results of the xargs.find command to be passed to xargs one by one as a parameter to ls-l.

# find / etc-name "* .conf" | xargs ls-l

When you want to download some URL, the URL is saved in a file, you can use the xargs command as follows

# cat url-list.txt | xargs wget-c

Find all the pictures in .jpg format and archive them.

# find /-name * .jpg-type f-print | xargs tar-cvzf images.tar.gz

Copy all the jpg picture files to the external hard drive

# ls * .jpg | xargs-N1-I cp {} / external-hard-drive/directory

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