On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> If I repeat what Bharathi sent long ago please excuse me. I can't help it.
>
> xargs is often used with the find command like this.
>
> $ find /etc | xargs vi
>
> is a simple way to edit all files under /etc recursively including
> directories. This is better.
>
> $ find /etc -type f | xargs vi
>
> You can also remove all .svn or CVS files like this.
>
> $ find . -type d -name CVS | rm -rf
>
> or
>
> $ find . -type d -name .svn | rm -rf
>
> I will send UNIX commands. Not just linux ones.
>
>
i use xargs most of the times to kill a particular process for e.g. httpd
ps -ef | grep httpd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs sudo kill -9
for find, which has a exec by default. not need to use xargs
You can also remove all .svn files like this.
find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
just my 2 paise
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