Boost your Linux command line options and simplify your work with xargs, a handy tool for a number of data manipulation tasks. The xargs command may be one that many Linux users don’t know, but it’s ...

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 ...

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts. Using a series ...

Having the right tools and utilities makes any job easier. Whether it's diagnosing a troublesome system, deploying a new device or managing a complicated environment, what's in a solution provider's ...

I am trying to use xargs on a file containg a long list of other filenames in conjunction with another command. It will run for about a tenth of the file, then I guess it sees something that it does ...

Learn a few techniques for avoiding the pipe and making your command-line commands more efficient. Anyone who uses the command line would acknowledge how powerful the pipe is. Because of the pipe, you ...

So, noticed on one of our web servers that the filespace was filling up. Went and looked deeper, and discovered that there appear to be a LOT of httpd processes running, each about 280MB. And, the ...