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| Developer(s) | Various open-source and commercial developers |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, IBM i |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Command |
xargs (short for "extended arguments")[1] is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input. It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command.
Some commands such as grep and awk can take input either as command-line arguments or from the standard input. However, others such as cp and echo can only take input as arguments, which is why xargs is necessary.
A port of an older version of GNU xargs is available for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.[2] A ground-up rewrite named wargs is part of the open-source TextTools[3] project. The xargs command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.[4]
- ^ "The Unix Acronym List: The Complete List". www.roesler-ac.de. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities". unxutils.sourceforge.net.
- ^ "Text processing tools for Windows".
- ^ IBM. "IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-09-05.