Glossary term
What is xargs? Meaning for developers
Turns lines of input into arguments for another command, and needs -0 to be safe with file names that contain spaces.
Learn it properly · Linux & ShellLesson 3: Pipes, Redirection and Text Tools: grep, sed, awk, find and xargsstdin, stdout and stderr, pipes, redirection, the text tools used to search and reshape data, and real one-line recipes.