The Linux xargs command may not be a hugely popular command line tool, but this doesn’t take away the fact that it’s extremely useful, especially when combined with other commands like find and grep. If you are new to xargs, and want to understand its usage, you’ll be glad to know that’s exactly what we’ll be doing here.
Before we proceed, please keep in mind that all the examples presented in this tutorial have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Shell used is Bash, and version is 4.3.11.
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