The xargs command on Linux can make it easier to build and execute commands. If you want to run the same command for a group of files or users, xargs can often make that process easier. Here’s a very simple example of xargs that creates or updates the update time on some files.$ echo file1 file2 file3 | xargs touch
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r–r–. 1 shs shs 0 Oct 15 12:41 file1
-rw-r–r–. 1 shs shs 0 Oct 15 12:41 file2
-rw-r–r–. 1 shs shs 0 Oct 15 12:41 file3

The command below is similar, but creates a file with blanks in its name because the -d specifies the input termination character.To read this article in full, please click her
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