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 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 ...

I have a pretty simple shell script to delete old logs from a directory, there are about 64 thousand files in the directory. If I execute it by hand from the CLI it works, but invoked thru a crontab ...