https://ilham.dev/tags/shell/Recent content in Shell on ilham.devHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700https://ilham.dev/posts/how-to-use-xargs-without-surprises/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700https://ilham.dev/posts/how-to-use-xargs-without-surprises/xargs is useful when one command prints a list and another command needs that list as arguments. A simple example: printf '%s\n' one two three | xargs echo Output: one two three That looks too simple to matter, but xargs becomes powerful when the input comes from commands like find, grep, or printf.