There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's ...

I have a pretty simple shell script to delete old logs from a directory, there are about 64 thousand files in the directory. If I execute it by hand from the CLI it works, but invoked thru a crontab ...

Parent article: CLI Magic: Running multiple jobs with xjobs (Linux.com) Yes, GNU's xargs has an option -P that allow parallelizing jobs. But you must tell xargs how many arguments to pass to each job, ...

What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. Some examples in the post of the “other ...