[TriLUG] xargs guide

[Danielle via TriLUG]

Nice guide. I had never thought about the --max-lines issue but I 
looked again why and I see that by using -I it protected me from my own 
ignorance: that option implies --max-lines=1.

My most common use of it is with find on my home desktop to do basic 
processing of images from my DSLR. I use --max-procs=3 with ImageMagick 
convert to do auto-orient and create 1/3 size and thumbnail copies (a 
small awk program then creates a trivial HTML table page to display the 
thumbnails and links to the larger images.)

Danielle

On 2015-07-29 21:47, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> xargs is a gender-changer type program that adapts one program's 
> stdout
> to the next program's command line arguments. It's extremely handy 
> for
> shell scripting, but it can be tricky. I've written a short guide for
> xargs that shows how to get around the usual xargs landmines:
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/xargs.htm
>
> Hope you like it.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21

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