------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xargs Run commands using a piped in list of arguments. Especially a list of files from "find" Essenually a pipped for-loop in many respects. find ... | xargs -r command OR to properly quote spaces and new lines, use NUL terminated lines... find ... -print0 | xargs -0r Running one at a time find . -print0 | xrags -0 -P0 -i echo "...{}..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running commands in parrellel... find ... -print0 | xargs -0r -P5 -n1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------