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Sending a command result to another program

by z3n on Apr.21, 2009, under Linux Happyness, Tips & Hints

Problem:

I wanted to mass edit .htaccess files on my server, but i didn’t wanted to give a vi on every of them.

Solution:

As far as i know, there should be an easier solution for this, but this is the one i’ve found so far:

command | xargs -n1 command1

Example:

find ./ -depth -name .htaccess | xargs -n1 vi

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