Xe

Jul 20, 2023

Simple xargs and apply replacement

xe is a tool for constructing command lines from file listings or arguments, which includes the best features of xargs1 and apply1.

Benefits over xargs

  • Sane defaults behaves like xargs -d’\n’ -I -n1 -r.
  • No weird parsing, arguments are separated linewise or by NUL byte.
  • Can also take arguments from command-line.
  • No shell involved unless -s is used.
  • replacing possible with multiple arguments.


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