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Questions - xargs

How to properly pass filenames with spaces with $* from xargs to sed via sh?

Disclaimer: this happens on macOS (Big Sur); more info about the context below. I have to write (almost did) a script which will replace images URLs in big text (xml) files by their Base64-encoded val...
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maxxyme

bash

shell

sed

xargs

macos-big-sur

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Answers: 2

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There's no reason for your software to use ls or xargs, and certainly not $*. ./replace-encode single.xml ./replace-encode pattern*.xml ./replace-encode single.xml pattern*.xml ./replace-encode folder...
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Charles Duffy

Multiple process curl command for urls to output to individual files

I am attempting to curl multiple urls in a bash command. Eventually I will be curling a large number of Urls so I am using xargs to use multiple processes to speed up the process. My file consists of ...
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Valentino

linux

bash

curl

xargs

Votes: 0

Answers: 2

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Because your question is ambiguous, I would assume: You have a file urls.txt that contains URLs separated by LF. You want to download all URLs by curl and use each URL as its filename. Unfortunately...
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Weihang Jian

Running basename on remote server with xargs does not produce expected results

Say I have a file myFile.txt in a local directory called ~/local/directory, then the following command produces results as expected (full file path followed by the name of the file only): find ~/local...
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mtruong1999

linux

bash

shell

ssh

xargs

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Answers: 1

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You need to escape the $ so that it will be sent literally to the remote machine. Otherwise, $(basename {}) is executed locally, and the output {} is substituted into the ssh argument. ssh -q remote-h...
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Barmar

using -exec vs. using xargs with the locate command in linux

This is a little mystery regarding the difference between -exec {} and xargs that I'm trying to understand. I would appreciate any guidance on this. As background, I've just learned about the "l...
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Sanjo

linux

exec

xargs

locate

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Answers: 1

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I’m not sure how much this varies, but on the Linuxes I have at hand — both running Debian derivatives — the locate command does not have an -exec switch. They all use the GNU version of locate, which...
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Ture Pålsson

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