Xargs Explained

[@scottfwalter]

This is probably the best explanation of all the different ways to use xargs.

[@dhedarkhcustard]

I like how you show the mistakes. It makes you seem much more human and it helps learn WHY something happens when it does. Great video.

[@monh964]

every day I realize I know nothing.. , thanks

[@memories1778]

go marry someone

[@monh964]

@@memories1778 Irrelevant to the topic

[@nickmills8476]

This is the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I think I know how you feel.

[@monh964]

@@nickmills8476 enlighten me.

[@arma5166]

@lls8476 or maybe he's passed the peak

[@james-cucumber]

This was fantastic. Actually motivating shell commands you might want to write, and guiding the viewer through the process, including when and why things don’t work is brilliant! Awesome pedagogy, you’ve earned a new sub!

[@detecht]

The quality of your content is so good. Its way better than everything else out there. Thank you, man. Seriously. You're awesome!

[@docmalitt]

Greetings mr. T. for us who truly enjoy your little educational cli videos, with all the regular apologies (you are busy, you are in love, you hunt bugs, you are saving the world, etc..) we can survive few more videos per annum... no need for any scripting or preps, just hit record and voila. Parfect.

[@leghdaf]

Great Demo , you make things easy to understand | Thank you so much TomNomNom... 👑

[@felipedonadon7039]

Hey Tom, I didn't know about your YT channel here! I fell in love with Vim and Bash scripting a couple of years back, thanks to your mash-up video with Stök in a coffee shop, after a hacking conference, explaining to him a few of the tricks up in your sleeves. I'm so glad to see you uploading here again, please keep 'em coming! ( also the format of these videos is really well stiched together, no fancy editions, just pure scripting and explanations, which is quite refreshing, thanks for this! ) Regards from Brazil.

[@BluesManPeich]

This video was incredibly instructive, thanks.

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

I knew there had to be a way to do that. Thank you. I've been searching for this command for months

[@PHoSawyer]

Great stuff, consise, and with enough knowledge to go on further but short enough without any guff. Top quality!

[@trampoline60]

This video is so useful! Concise and to the point while explaining the command with examples

[@mintoo2cool]

cant wait for the followup to this .. would love to see this as a series and cover curl, ip, netstat, iostat, sar etc etc

[@UliTroyo]

I've never had to use xargs but I know it's very common, so I wondered what I was doing different. I use Nuhsell! It lets me do the following: open hostnames | lines | each { |url| host -t A $url } The 'lines' command splits text input into a list at each newline. Then I pass the 'each' command a Nushell closure where I run the 'host' command with the value form each line. And if I change the 'each' command to 'par-each', it will run each in parallel, in as many threads as I have available. Nice to know what xargs does finally, but it also makes me glad I use Nushell.

[@xyangst]

Was wondering the same thing since i was using fish 🙃

[@KevinNitro]

Please I'm looking forward to your next video of this series 💫

[@MelroyvandenBerg]

Thanks! Useful for me. I didn't knew about the -P flag. And this advanced sh -c within the xargs makes a lot of sense as well. Very powerful indeed.

[@Awcator]

Best short daily usage way of demo

[@jasonfevang9670]

Really well done video, simple and great pacing. Please make more!

[@glennhoetker2721]

Brilliant. Clearly explained and accessible. Thanks!

[@nazneenzafar743]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial. I was actually having some hard time understanding xargs from its manual. I am glad i was suggested this video.

[@ЕгорСоменко-я6у]

I love you, this is so logical and sequent

[@nathangetty4892]

Love seeing everyone’s usecases with these commands, I’ve always used exec, but that -I flag with xargs is amazing! Nice find by me!

[@gtmfarrell1381]

Excellent stuff, Tom. Saw your 'find' command video, and have been waiting for your next upload since! Really enjoying this style of video. A few more of these, and you'll have one of the best, most accessible video series on getting the most out of the command line!

[@adriantoledocastineira4257]

great videos. advanced stuff delivered water-clear! subscribed!

[@simon7762]

Wow never knew about the parallelism and bash flag for xargs, thanks tom!

[@BugBountyReportsExplained]

I was waiting! Keep it up Tom🔥

[@lol-hz9mc]

Thank you very much for teaching Xargs this easily man!!

[@Leander_]

Very well presented, thanks!

[@alexandrelithaud8196]

It's clean and very interesting! I want more of these !

[@khocode4090]

What a PEDAGOGY and it's a CypherPunk and Telecom Architect ! you've got a new SUB :)

[@apemoses7231]

Great video as usual, I can't wait for whats next.

[@TheJaguar1983]

xargs is a great tool. One of the many reasons I run WSL on my Windows machine. I tend to use XXXX with the -I argument because it shouldn't conflict with bash syntax, flags or filenames.

[@endlessrock3r]

Excellent explanation!! I was trying to learn exactly about the Xargs command a few days ago :))

[@Me.n_n]

Great Tom more videos like that 😊

[@eyephpmyadmin6988]

Ive been uing your tools then saw you did tuff with naham sec and i had to check your channel out, im glad i did

[@b391i]

Nice lesson, Mr. Tom.

[@janekmachnicki2593]

Well explained Thanks Tom!

[@mattlau04]

Very educative and clear!

[@MFoster392]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge ,this is great stuff :)

[@LocdNCoded]

Awesome 🎉. Thank you! Very helpful

[@GooogleGoglee]

Very well detailed video. Subscribed ❤ I hope in more videos about 'awk' command 😊

[@256k_]

how can i learn all these damn unix/linux command line tools? not a joke for real, is there like a resource to learn about all of this? is this what a sysadmin does? i feel like there's so much power to be had with just the basic commnad line tools that are right there in every distro but i know nothing of them.

[@RohitYadav-qt9lx]

Awesome video as always , if you can continue this series and go over some other useful commands from Bug hunter/Red Teaming perspective like: host nslookup [also a bit of DNS explanation lol] grep [regex matching] awk tr jq [complex operations like replacing strings in json] gron nmap

[@indignasmr7379]

Excellent video

[@justinnamilee]

For the -0 flag alone this video is dope, because I had always wondered about it and just end up doing a bash for loop instead. xD

[@mysteriousministar2481]

we want moreeee, lets goooooo

[@mikael5743]

Great content

[@TheD3adlysin]

Hey @tomnomnom These are awesome. Whats your goal with this video series? Hopefully, the entirety of the core-utils! Do Fuser next!

[@ZachaPedro]

If you’re using xargs with sh -c, then might as well insert the argument as a positional parameter of sh which that inner shell expands as an actual variable ($1) rather than keep using -I{}, whose behavior is finicky in practice. That does require you to surround the argument to -c in single quotes, and to provide a placeholder parameter that will become $0 (I use "sh-c") since that is supposed to stand for the script name, but I get fewer surprises in the end.

[@echobucket]

it always drove me crazy that the default for find and xargs wasn't to use as the separator character. This is what most other commands deal with but somehow these are weird and use spaces by default.

[@eshansh_bhardwaj]

Simply Awesome 👌😊

[@katiagalkina4607]

fantastic! keep it up. subbed!

[@kfhahn]

great video

[@codelinx]

That was a great video

[@dwolrdcojp]

Beautiful

[@OluwadamilolaMojisola-v2h]

Awesome ❤ Tom

[@betanapallisandeepra]

Good one

[@elbobinas]

thanks sir

[@h1k0r-mg2hc]

Can you make a video topic bug hunting recon please ❤

[@trejohnson7677]

powershell piping beating the snot out of ye olde kludged xargs invokations

[@KillianDefaoite]

I've never needed to use xargs, for loops have always been good enough for me, e.g for file in $(find . -type f); do tail $file; done or for file in $(cat listoffiles.txt); do tail $file; done Is there anything about xargs that makes it more useful than a standard for loop?

[@kiryls1207]

please make a video about jdsl

[@davidardo4466]

Please make more js video❤

[@__CJ.__]

❤

[@harshitjoshi3082]

What if we give it -P100 ?

[@امیرعزیزی-س6ذ]

🎉🎉🎉

[@CantPickTheNameIwant]

audio isn't loud enough

[@TomNomNomDotCom]

I'll try fix that for next time, thanks :)

[@CantPickTheNameIwant]

@@TomNomNomDotCom thank you mate

[@andyhall7032]

nice...thankfully no one except windows admins would use spaces in filenames...phew !!

[@ysxninja]

You eerily sound like youtube.com/@NoBoilerplate Must be a glitch in the matrix. Great to see more videos from you, ❤ I especially enjoy your VIM tutorial with @STOk. I Always go back to it and discover something new.

[@akashsarkar990]

Why aren't you using zsh?

[@TomNomNomDotCom]

I've been using bash for about 25 years and I found it difficult to switch!

[@aliakbarmostafaei]

How did you learn all of this? 👍

[@TomNomNomDotCom]

Almost everything I've learnt has been as a result of having a problem to solve, searching for options to solve it, and reading further into the tools I found along the way :)