One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

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 ...

I know it is strange, but I can assure you, the script as I posted it on the first post works (either using exec of xargs), and has been working for ages on many, many boxes (most of them CentOS) ...

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 ...