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xe: simple xargs and apply replacement

xe is a new tool for constructing command lines from file listings or arguments, which includes the best features of xargs(1) and apply(1).

xe means "execute for every ...".

Benefits

Over xargs:

  • Sane defaults (behaves like xargs -d'\n' -I{} -n1 -r).
  • No weird parsing, arguments are separated linewise or by NUL byte.
  • Can also take arguments from command-line.
  • No shell involved unless -s is used.
  • {} replacing possible with multiple arguments.
  • Support for patterns to run different commands depending on the argument.

Over apply:

  • Parallel mode.
  • Sane argument splitting.
  • Can use shell-syntax instead of escape characters.

Man page

Installation

Use make all to build, make install to install relative to PREFIX (/usr/local by default). The DESTDIR convention is respected. You can also just copy the binary into your PATH.

Copyright

xe is in the public domain.

To the extent possible under law, Leah Neukirchen [email protected] has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/