I try to use perl instead of sed, awk, bash each time the needs are beyond basic usage. This applies also sometimes for xargs for example with the following com

I try to use perl instead of sed, awk, bash each time the needs are beyond basic usage. This applies also sometimes for xargs for example with the following command. find . -name junk\* | perl -nle unlink My favorite usage of xargs if for parallel operations: cat hostlist | xargs -P 0 -n 1 -I host rsh host gzip -9 log/*.log