2021 https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/ra4dg7/extremely_useful_alias_i_just_came_up_with/ alias linedo="xargs -d '\n' -I {}" xargs -t kill print the command line on stderr before executing -a, --arg-file read args from the file -0, --null items are separated by a null, not whitespace; disables quote and backslash processing and logical EOF processing -I R same as --replace=R -i, --replace[=R] replace R in INITIAL-ARGS with names read from standard input; if R is unspecified, assume {} -P, --max-procs 40 use 40 threads -t, --verbose the same: xargs -0 -a 1.txt echo xargs -0 -I{} -a 1.txt echo {} xargs -0 -i -a 1.txt echo {} samples cat lines.txt | xargs -0 -n 1 echo ??? cat lines.txt | xargs -n 1 echo find *.txt | xargs -i sh -c "cat {}; echo ''" > finalfile.txt xargs -0 -i -P 4 -a ~/Downloads/1.txt echo {}