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#TIL: #xargs has an option -a to read items from a file instead of from standard input. This is perfect if you need to run xargs without a surrounding shell to provide the commonly used pipe mechanism, e.g. calling it just via exec() or similar.

My case today was with Perl's Test::Command::Simple::run_ok() in pxzgrep's TAP based test suite.

#linuxcli #cli #climagic #commandlinemagic

#unix is awesome #oneliner #otd

"Hey UNIX, give me a list of all our infra projects that create databases sorted by linecount"

rg -l OLAmazonDB | xargs wc -l | sort

This message brought to you by the awesome power of #ripgrep and #xargs :)

How To Create Directories From A Text File #LinuxCommands #Linuxhowto #CLI #xargs #mkdir

https://www.ostechnix.com/create-directories-text-file-linux/