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xargs: Show delimiter flag usage (#2111)

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okaymaged 2018-05-18 13:22:49 -07:00 committed by Starbeamrainbowlabs
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`{{arguments_source}} | xargs {{command}}` `{{arguments_source}} | xargs {{command}}`
- Delete all files with a `.backup` extension: - Delete all files with a `.backup` extension. `-print0` on find uses a null character to split the files, and `-0` changes the delimiter to the null character (useful if there's whitespace in filenames):
`find . -name {{'*.backup'}} | xargs rm -v` `find . -name {{'*.backup'}} -print0 | xargs -0 rm -v`
- Convert newlines in the input into NUL (`\0`) characters, and split on those only (useful if the input to xargs contains spaces):
`{{arguments_source}} | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 {{command}}`
- Execute the command once for each input line, replacing any occurrences of the placeholder (here marked as `_`) with the input line: - Execute the command once for each input line, replacing any occurrences of the placeholder (here marked as `_`) with the input line: