xargs_statistics.md

layout	title	tags
manual	xargs - Statistics of command combinations using semicolon	statistic

Before

The commands before xargs: Execute the given command before xargs.

Command	percentage
w	12%
find	11%
grep	9%
awk	6%
sed	6%
exec	6%
ls	5%
name	4%
xargs	2%
cd	2%
su	2%
echo	2%
id	2%
du	2%
jp	1%
ss	1%
curl	1%

After

The commands after xargs: Execute the given command after xargs.

Command	Percentage
rm	10%
grep	8%
xargs	7%
echo	7%
w	6%
su	5%
awk	5%
mv	5%
sed	5%
find	3%
name	3%
jp	2%
ls	2%
sort	2%
du	2%
usermod	1%
tar	1%
bc	1%
tail	1%
sleep	1%
less	1%
ss	1%
cd	1%
mkdir	1%
batch	1%
sudo	1%
nslookup	1%
man	1%
top	1%
ftp	1%
rmdir	1%

Related Scenarios

Below are the scenarios for all command combinations above.

The description in the table is referenced from and can be used to search the one-line-command or the scripts in the website of CommandLineFu.

Execute w before xargs

• Numeric zero padding file rename
• restore the contents of a deleted file for which a descriptor is still available
• grep files by date and delete
• find svn uncommitted files and list their properties
• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data
• Ensure path permissions from '.' prior to root
• sync svn working copy and remote repository (auto adding new files)
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Kill processes hogging up CPU (Flash after resume)
• Url Encode
• Exclude dumping of specific tables with same prefix from a single database
• How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10
• Recursively remove directories less than specified size
• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
• Recursively remove all empty directories
• Remove all intermediate docker images after build
• Cross-region delete aws ec2 image
• urldecoding
• Play flash videos in VLC
• Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• List your largest installed packages.
• Bulk install
• Replace duplicate files by hardlinks

Execute find before xargs

• find all files containing a pattern, open them using vi and place cursor to the first match, use 'n' and ':n' to navigate
• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Show demo of toilet fonts
• Kill processes that have been running for more than a week
• Compile all .less files to .css
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• search for a pattern (regex) in all text files (ignoring binary files) in a directory tree
• Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• Monitor logs in Linux using Tail
• FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
• Remove string with several escaped characters from all files under given path
• Change string in many files at once and more.
• Recursively remove all empty directories
• Replicate a directory structure dropping the files
• Find and delete oldest file of specific types in directory tree
• Resolve *.so dependencies in current directory and copy to /tmp/build directory
• find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
• Play flash videos in VLC
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
• Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory
• a find and replace within text-based files

Execute grep before xargs

• find all files containing a pattern, open them using vi and place cursor to the first match, use 'n' and ':n' to navigate
• restore the contents of a deleted file for which a descriptor is still available
• grep files by date and delete
• Ensure path permissions from '.' prior to root
• sync svn working copy and remote repository (auto adding new files)
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10
• Remove string with several escaped characters from all files under given path
• Change string in many files at once and more.
• Recursively remove all empty directories
• Remove all intermediate docker images after build
• find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
• Play flash videos in VLC
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• a find and replace within text-based files
• Bulk install

Execute awk before xargs

• Numeric zero padding file rename
• restore the contents of a deleted file for which a descriptor is still available
• grep files by date and delete
• find svn uncommitted files and list their properties
• sync svn working copy and remote repository (auto adding new files)
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Kill processes hogging up CPU (Flash after resume)
• How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10
• Recursively remove directories less than specified size
• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
• Remove all intermediate docker images after build
• Play flash videos in VLC
• Bulk install

Execute sed before xargs

• bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
• bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
• Purge application's residual config & orphans
• Play musical notes from octave of middle C
• Convert a script to one-liner
• Compile all .less files to .css
• archive all files containing local changes (svn)
• Url Encode
• Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive
• extracting the email-server's ip-address.
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv

Execute exec before xargs

• find all files containing a pattern, open them using vi and place cursor to the first match, use 'n' and ':n' to navigate
• Show demo of toilet fonts
• Kill processes that have been running for more than a week
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep
• Monitor logs in Linux using Tail
• FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
• Remove string with several escaped characters from all files under given path
• Change string in many files at once and more.
• Find and delete oldest file of specific types in directory tree
• find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
• Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory
• a find and replace within text-based files

Execute ls before xargs

• Numeric zero padding file rename
• bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
• bulk rename files with sed, one-liner
• Move lots files with AWK
• restore the contents of a deleted file for which a descriptor is still available
• grep files by date and delete
• Compile all .less files to .css
• git clone all user repos
• Find and delete oldest file of specific types in directory tree
• compile source & then remove the dev tools you needed to install
• urldecoding
• rename multiple files with different name, eg converting all txt to csv

Execute name before xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Show demo of toilet fonts
• Kill processes that have been running for more than a week
• Exclude dumping of specific tables with same prefix from a single database
• Remove string with several escaped characters from all files under given path
• Find and delete oldest file of specific types in directory tree
• Resolve *.so dependencies in current directory and copy to /tmp/build directory
• find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute xargs before xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Compile all .less files to .css
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Play flash videos in VLC
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute cd before xargs

• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• Get the latest ftp file from ftp server on local machine with lftp and bash. (Piped commands inside lftp).
• Replicate a directory structure dropping the files
• Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"
• Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory

Execute su before xargs

• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• git clone all user repos
• Play flash videos in VLC
• Create subdirectory and move files into it
• Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website

Execute echo before xargs

• draw rhomb
• Get bucket policy from a s3 buckets list
• Get top N files in X directory
• lsof - cleaned up for just open listening ports, the process, and the owner of the process
• Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website
• Better "hours of video" summary for each file/dir in the current directory

Execute id before xargs

• Extract the emoticons regex from a running skype process
• How to find all open files by a process in Solaris 10
• find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
• Play flash videos in VLC
• Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website

Execute du before xargs

• FInd the 10 biggest files taking up disk space
• Recursively remove directories less than specified size
• Remove all directories less than 1 MB in size in or below current directory
• Bulk install
• Replace duplicate files by hardlinks

Execute jp before xargs

• Numeric zero padding file rename
• sync a directory of corrupted jpeg with a source directory
• Find corrupted jpeg image files

Execute ss before xargs

• FAST Search and Replace for Strings in all Files in Directory
• Compile all .less files to .css
• Phrack 66 is out, but the .tar.gz is not there yet on phrack.org's website

Execute curl before xargs

• git clone all user repos
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde
• Get the rough (german) time from Twitter by @zurvollenstunde

Execute touch before xargs

• find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

Execute last before xargs

• find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

Execute lsof before xargs

• restore the contents of a deleted file for which a descriptor is still available

Execute cat before xargs

• kill all process that belongs to you
• Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg

Execute kill before xargs

• kill all process that belongs to you

Execute zip before xargs

• copy zip files which contains XXX

Execute ip before xargs

• copy zip files which contains XXX
• Upgrade pip-installed python packages

Execute tac before xargs

• FAST Search and Replace for Strings in all Files in Directory

Execute sort before xargs

• rename all images in folder with original date time from exif data
• Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive

Execute man before xargs

• Play musical notes from octave of middle C
• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

Execute less before xargs

• Compile all .less files to .css

Execute diff before xargs

• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)

Execute ln before xargs

• search for a pattern (regex) in all text files (ignoring binary files) in a directory tree

Execute pwd before xargs

• Ensure path permissions from '.' prior to root

Execute ps before xargs

• git clone all user repos
• Play flash videos in VLC

Execute dd before xargs

• automatically add and remove files in subversion

Execute top before xargs

• Kill processes hogging up CPU (Flash after resume)
• Get top N files in X directory

Execute rev before xargs

• Move all but the newest 100 emails to a gzipped archive

Execute export before xargs

• Remove all older kernels then the current running kernel for Ubuntu/Debian base system

Execute date before xargs

• Localize a Public IP on a specific interface

Execute ftp before xargs

• Get the latest ftp file from ftp server on local machine with lftp and bash. (Piped commands inside lftp).

Execute dig before xargs

• extracting the email-server's ip-address.

Execute mysql before xargs

• Export ms access mdb to mysql sql

Execute mkdir before xargs

• Create subdirectory and move files into it
• decompiler for jar files using jad

Execute rm before xargs

• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute chmod before xargs

• IBM AIX: Verify a sha256sum listing with openssl

Execute rm after xargs

• Changes the initial login group for all users with GID > 500 (specified with LIMIT), to group YOURGROUP
• find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Find running binary executables that were not installed using dpkg
• Rezip a bunch of files
• move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
• decompiler for jar files using jad

Execute grep after xargs

• google search
• Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• find external links in all html files in a directory list
• Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)
• Better "hours of video" summary for each file/dir in the current directory

Execute xargs after xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Compile all .less files to .css
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Play flash videos in VLC
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute echo after xargs

• kill all process that belongs to you
• password generator
• Count music files in each directory
• Get the password for PostgreSQL backend db for VMware vRA
• Ultimate current directory usage command
• List your largest installed packages.

Execute w after xargs

• google search
• Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)
• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

Execute su after xargs

• Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
• Count the total amount of hours of your music collection

Execute awk after xargs

• Find stock debian package config files that have been modified since installation
• automatically add and remove files in subversion
• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)
• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

Execute mv after xargs

• Compile all .less files to .css
• Converts Character Set of Files in a Folder
• Append html-extension to all files in a directory structure that contains html-code.
• Rename all the files in the current directory into their sha1sum

Execute sed after xargs

• Append html-extension to all files in a directory structure that contains html-code.
• Get last changed revision to all eclipse projects in a SVN working copy
• Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted
• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)

Execute find after xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Diff 2 file struct - Useful for branch diff and jars diff(uncompressed)
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute name after xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)
• /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

Execute jp after xargs

• Find corrupted jpeg image files
• Random Wallpaper From Reddit

Execute ls after xargs

• kill all process that belongs to you
• scan multiple log subdirectories for the latest log files and tail them

Execute sort after xargs

• detect the fastest ldap server on a intranet
• find external links in all html files in a directory list

Execute du after xargs

• Ultimate current directory usage command
• Ultimate current directory usage command

Execute usermod after xargs

• Changes the initial login group for all users with GID > 500 (specified with LIMIT), to group YOURGROUP

Execute tar after xargs

• google search

Execute bc after xargs

• small CPU benchmark with PI, bc and time.

Execute tail after xargs

• scan multiple log subdirectories for the latest log files and tail them

Execute sleep after xargs

• pc is ghosted?!

Execute less after xargs

• Compile all .less files to .css

Execute ss after xargs

• Compile all .less files to .css

Execute cd after xargs

• Delete all Vagrant boxes

Execute mkdir after xargs

• Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Execute batch after xargs

• Extract the emoticons regex from a running skype process

Execute sudo after xargs

• Get the Volume labels all bitlocker volumes had before being encrypted

Execute nslookup after xargs

• Command to resolve name from Ip address, passing only the last field after seq (C Class for example)

Execute man after xargs

• Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

Execute top after xargs

• How many lines in your PHP project without comments

Execute ftp after xargs

• Faciliate the work for lftp ('all' is needed if you wanna use it with getopts, otherwise its enough with the lftp line)

Execute rmdir after xargs

• move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.