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Pass stdin items as arguments to another command.

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Section: Searching and Pattern Matching

Build command lines from stdin

bash
bash
find . -name '*.tmp' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
Explanation

Essential when combining `find` with bulk operations safely.

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