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Can someone provide an xargs example piping mysql query data into another command?

Can someone provide an example for the command xargs? I want to do a mysql query to return the ID field of a column then feed that result into xargs into another command say mysql query delete. How ...
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Use command grep and locate

How I can make the grep command locate certain words in the files specified by the routes found by the locate command? locate my.cnf | grep user (I want that grep command search the word "user" ...
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Find -exec + vs find | xargs. Which one to choose?

I understand that the -exec can take a + option to mimic the behaviour of xargs. Is there any situation where you'd prefer one form over the other? I personally tend to prefer the first form, if ...
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Why did using xargs fail in this case?

I tried to understand the usage of xargs and did the following experiment. ls | xargs | touch I want to refresh the files dates and directoris in the curent directory. Though it is a bit silly,for ...
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Passing pipeline value as parameter to xargs for use by eval echo

I have a text file that I'm using as a template, it looks like this: Hostname : $HOSTNAME Host Address : $HOSTADDRESS My bash script sets two variables, HOSTNAME and HOSTADDRESS, reads the ...