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xargs & tar

Learn to build commands from stdin with xargs and create/extract archives with tar.

Step 1

Use xargs to pass file names to cat. Pipe file paths through xargs.

Type: echo documents/readme.txt documents/notes.txt | xargs cat

echo documents/readme.txt documents/notes.txt | xargs cat

Step 2

Combine find and xargs to count lines in all .txt files under documents/.

Step 3

Create a tar archive containing readme.txt and notes.txt.

Step 4

List the contents of the archive using tar -tf.

Step 5

Extract the archive with verbose output using tar -xvf.