Link to this headingXargs

Run Multable Commands from list

alias linedo="xargs -n1 -d '\n' -I {}"

Recursive Find and Replace:

ag -l pattern | xargs gsed -ri 's|pat(tern)|\1 replace|g'

Use more than one argument per line:

echo 1 2 3 4 5 6| xargs -n 3

Prompt before execution:

echo a b c |xargs -p -n 3

Do Operations in Parallel:

time echo {1..5} |xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep

Xargs and sed (replace all old ip address with new ip address under /etc directory):

grep -rl '192.168.1.111' /etc | xargs sed -i 's/192.168.1.111/192.168.2.111/g'