About
wiki/xargs is an utility that takes the output of a command (ie standard input in a stream) to create arguments and execute commands. This command does not take in general a stream as argument).
Example
- remove file
find /path -type f -print | xargs rm
- other example with hdfs
hdfs dfs -ls /path | grep -e pattern | awk '{print $8}' | xargs hdfs dfs -rm