An Opinionated Guide to Xargs

• dotfiles

  4 39 0.0 Python

  Bash, Python, IPython scripts, and userspace configuration https://westurner.org/dotfiles/ (by westurner)

Wanting verbose logging from xargs, years ago I wrote a script called `el` (edit lines) that basically does `xargs -0` with logging. https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/e...

It turns out that e.g. -print0 and -0 are the only safe way: line endings aren't escaped:

    find . -type f -print0 | el -0 --each -x echo

• blender_gnu_parallel_render

  2 2 0.0 Shell

  Use GNU Parallel to render blender movies distributed by a bunch of nodes

I used Parallel to distribute the rendering of a little Blender animation It worked very well.

https://github.com/tfmoraes/blender_gnu_parallel_render/blob...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• svntogit-community

  113 311 10.0 Shell

  Discontinued Automatic import of svn 'community' repo (read-only mirror)

  

Seems like some distributions patch out the nagware. I know Arch Linux does[0].

[0]: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/tree/package...

• fish-shell

  320 24,593 9.9 Rust

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3164#issueco... for incomplete but large survey of NUL flags.

Takeaways: (1) There is no consistency in flag names, even --long ones (2) impressively many tools do support it! Note that some affect only input or only output. (3) All do NUL-terminated, not NUL-separated. That's fortunate — matches \n usage, and gives distinct representations for [] vs [""].

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