How to use xargs?

xrgs command is used where we need to pipe stdout to stdin in the manner that each argument pass one at a time instead of a batch. For example suppose you need to delete all avi files(files that have avi extension) from /root folder, then you can use xargs in following way


root# find /root -name *.avi -type f -print
xrgs rm -f

But sometimes you may face error if you a very long list of avi files in /root. In this case just modify your command in following ways

root# find /root -name *.avi -type f -print0
xrgs -0 rm -f

For achieving above given task you can also use -exec with find in following ways

root# find /root -name *.avi -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

Or if you want to little bit more scripty , try following

move into /root first

root# cd /root

then

root# for a in *;do rm -f $a;done