xargs: How To Control and Use Command Line Arguments
Good introduction to xargs; a tool I knew existed, but good learn better and put it to good use more. The basic use case if you have a command that outputs data you can use xargs to let each line be an argument for another tool…
ls *.old | xargs rm
or today I had a file that was copied in 10 projects and I want to see them all in my editor:
find . | grep filename | xargs mate