xargs

Read input from find:

$ find -print0 | xargs -r -0 file

Invoke a shell command:

$ find -print0 | xargs -r -0 bash -c 'file $@' _

Run a separate command for each argument:

$ env | xargs -r -n1 echo

Run a separate command for each input line:

$ git log --format="%P %H" | xargs -r -L1 git diff

Options

Note

Always use -r for easier handling of empty input

-0, --null

Input items are terminated by a null character instead of whitespace, quotes and backslash are not special

--delimiter=delim, -d delim

Input items are terminated by the specified character

-L max-lines

Use at most max-lines (non-blank) input lines per command

-n max-args, --max-args=max-args

Use at most max-args arguments per command

-r, --no-run-if-empty

Only run command if there are non-blank input lines

-I replace-str

Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial-arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not terminate input items; instead the separator is the newline character. Implies -x and -L 1.