xargs

•   xargs command examples

Copy all images to external hard-drive

# ls *.jpg | xargs -n1 -i cp {} /external-hard-drive/directory

Search all jpg images in the system and archive it.

# find / -name *.jpg -type f -print | xargs tar -cvzf images.tar.gz

Download all the URLs mentioned in the url-list.txt file

# cat url-list.txt | xargs wget –c

Copy all images to external hard-drive



# ls *.jpg | xargs -n1 -i cp {}
/external-hard-drive/directory


Search all jpg images in the system and archive it.

# find / -name *.jpg -type f -print | xargs tar
-cvzf images.tar.gz