What is the difference between pipe and xargs?
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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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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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