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Revision as of 15:31, 28 December 2015
Examples:
ls | xargs rm -rf # Delete all elements inside current directory
ls | xargs -t rm -r # -t shows the command that will be executed
ls | xargs -t -n1 rm -r # Limit to one the number of arguments passed to rm
Other arguments
-P Specify max number of parallel processes
-I Specify argument possition ej: ls | xargs -I ARG echo before ARG after