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xargs is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute command lines from standard input. Under the Linux kernel before version 2.6.23, arbitrarily long lists of parameters could not be passed to a command, so xargs breaks the list of arguments into sublists small enough to be acceptable.

References

1. GNU Core Utilities FAQ

External links

• xargs: construct argument lists and invoke utility – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from The Open Group

Manual pages

• xargs(1) – GNU Findutils reference
• xargs(1): construct argument list(s) and execute utility – FreeBSD General Commands Manual
• xargs(1): construct argument list(s) and execute utility – NetBSD General Commands Manual
• xargs(1): construct argument list(s) and execute utility – OpenBSD General Commands Manual
• xargs(1): construct argument lists and invoke utility – Solaris 11.4 User Commands Reference Manual

• Unix text processing utilities
• Unix SUS2008 utilities