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'''xargs''' is a command on [[Unix]] and most [[Unix-like]] operating systems used to build and execute command lines from standard input.

Commands such as [[grep]] and [[awk]] can accept the standard input as a parameter, or argument by using a [[Pipeline (Unix)|pipe]].

However, others such as [[cp]] and echo disregard the standard input stream and rely solely on the arguments found after the command.

Additionally, under the Linux kernel before version 2.6.23, and under many other Unix-like systems, arbitrarily long lists of parameters cannot be passed to a command, so xargs breaks the list of arguments into sublists small enough to be acceptable.

== Description ==

== See also ==

* [[File system]]
* [[Linux]]
* [[Unix]]
* [[Unix-like]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs xargs] @ Wikipedia

[[Category:Computing]]
[[Category:Unix]]

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