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What is the difference between pipe and xargs?

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What is the difference between pipe and xargs?..

Answer / shh

xargs command
Build and execute command lines from standard input

find . -type f -mtime -1 -print | xargs ls

Pipe is a technique to use for joining two/more commands
(one command output as input to other command ..so on
| is a symobol for pipe)

ls -al | more

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What is the difference between pipe and xargs?..

Answer / amit kumar pradhan

Pipe is used to connect between two command
Xargs redirect the output of second command to the first one

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