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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. You've hit your Sonnet limit · resets Jun 8, 9am (UTC)

GNU and Unix Commands

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What is the purpose of the xargs command?

Options

  • 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

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    89% (41)
  • B
    7% (3)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    2% (1)

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#xargs#stdin#command execution#argument handling

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