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Linux commands

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combine commands with xargs

Some commands (e.g. chmod) can't handle input via pipe and require the input as arguments. xargs takes the standard input as list of arguments seperated by spaces or newlines and executes the given command with the input parsed to a list of arguments.

Usage:

find . -type f | xargs chmod 644