zargs

A rewrite of xargs in Rust, for fun and science

Todo list

Parameters implemented from xargs:

• [x] "Args file" ie. "Read items from file instead of standard input."
• [x] "Delimiter" ie. "Input items are terminated by the specified character."
• [x] "Replace" ie. "Replace occurrences of a string in the initial-arguments with names read from standard input."
• [x] ~"max-procs" ie. "Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1."~ uses Rayon for parallelization

Not sure if I can about other parameters! Maybe I can be convinced otherwise.

Installation

shell cargo install zargs

Example Usage

Replacing strings, in the target command, with piped arguments

shell echo Vasilios | target/debug/zargs -r name echo "Hello, name!" Hello, Vasilios!

Should work on Windows!

shell echo "write-output 'hello world :)'" | zargs powershell hello world :)