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101-400 · Question #402

What is the purpose of the xargs command?

The correct answer is A. It will read standard input and executecommand lines with the read input. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

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What is the purpose of the xargs command?

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  • AIt will read standard input and executecommand lines with the read input.
  • BIt will get user input from the graphical environment.
  • CIt will clean up command line arguments and verify syntactic correctness.
  • DIt will pass arguments on the command line to a new graphical application.
  • EIt will allow users to specify long options for commands that normally only accept short

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  • A
    69% (9)
  • B
    15% (2)
  • C
    8% (1)
  • E
    8% (1)

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