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Is a very useful program to take a list and run commands against that list. xargs will take a list of arguments, loop through them and run a command against 1 or more arguments at a time.
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If you like xargs you might want to check out GNU Parallel. |
Basic Example
Here is a really straightforward example of using xargs to calculate a MD5 hash on every file in the current directory,
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