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Simplify Linux Administration Tasks by Using Xargs

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What you'll do

You are a Linux system administrator.

  1. You need to organize files and directories on a Linux server
  2. Create multiple files by using the xargs command
  3. Use xargs to create new files based on filenames contained in a database file
  4. Move, and then delete multiple files in a directory by using xargs

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