xargs

Overview ¶

xargs reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited strings from the standard input and executes utility with the strings as arguments.

Synopsis:

xargs [OPTIONS] [COMMAND [ARGS]...]

Options:

-n: max number of arguments per command
-t: enable trace mode, each command is written to stderr
-p: the user is asked whether to execute utility at each invocation
-0: use a null byte as the input argument delimiter