How to Use xargs to Process Piped Arguments in Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 15, 2022 3:04 AM EDT
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If you try to pipe the output from one Linux command into another, you may run into errors where the command fails because its argument list is too long. Fortunately, there's a command on Linux systems that properly formats arguments to commands. It's called xargs and here's how to use it.

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