all about xargs ! (beginner - intermediate) anthony explains

xargs is by far one of the most useful commandline tools I know -- I teach the main things you need to use it so you can look like a commandline wizard too!
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[@sadhlife]

ok this was pretty cool. I just started looking into bash scripting, and I'm definitely going to look into find and xargs (and git) a lot more

[@armpitpuncher]

Note that the '-1' is unnecessary for ls. ls detects whether its output is going to a terminal, or if it's being piped to another program. If it's being piped to another program, like xargs, it only outputs one entry per line. So the command "ls -1 | xargs -d'
' --verbose -n1" does the same thing even if you remove the '-1'.

[@anthonywritescode]

this depends on the implementation and version of `ls` -- not all implementations behave in that way

[@tompov227]

episode 200!! super cool i really like these. also what a great topic for #200 i LOVE xargs

[@Bokbind]

Dang, this is a lot of cool stuff. I've used xargs whenever I needed too, but never delved that deeply into it. This workflow is really nice.

[@elimik31]

And here I was using $() subprocess substitution like a pleb, e.g. something like `echo $(ls)` or `for file in $(ls)`. xarrgs seems like the better option for most of those cases and I'll be happy to use it from now on :)

[@example101]

xargs is indeed the Linux key to doing many bits of automation. Great code coaching.

[@shashanksharma21]

Another gem of a video ! Thanks !

[@md_daud]

thank you!

[@theeFaris]

Didn't agree more, find + xargs is the way to go, for long commands i usually add a tqdm at the end too.

[@cubernetes]

5:29 how did you jump from EOL to that position (position before 'hello') so quickly?

[@anthonywritescode]

probably Ctrl+e

[@mister_incredible3469]

i still didn't get it 😥. i am very new to linux

[@Maverick_Mad_Moiselle]

What part of the quoting you "didn't do properly"?
I keep re-reading it, but I don't understand why it manages to rename 'hello hello world' into a bak file and then tries to move a world file...

[@anthonywritescode]

spaces in filenames got interpreted as argument separators. quoting properly prevents that

[@walkdead94]

learning xargs because I can't learn how to use variables on scripting.. hahahaha