One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's ...

I know it is strange, but I can assure you, the script as I posted it on the first post works (either using exec of xargs), and has been working for ages on many, many boxes (most of them CentOS) ...

I am trying to use xargs on a file containg a long list of other filenames in conjunction with another command. It will run for about a tenth of the file, then I guess it sees something that it does ...

What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. Some examples in the post of the “other ...