xe

Execute a command once for each line piped from another command or file.

Run a command once for each line of input data as arguments

$ [arguments_source] | xe [command]

Execute the commands, replacing any occurrence of the placeholder (marked as {}) with the input line

$ [arguments_source] | xe [command] {} [optional_extra_arguments]

Execute a shellscript, joining every N lines into a single call

$ echo -e 'a\nb' | xe -N[2] -s 'echo $2 $1'

Delete all files with a .backup extension

$ find . -name ['*.backup'] | xe rm -v

Run up to max-jobs processes in parallel; the default is 1. If max-jobs is 0, xe will run as many processes as cpu cores

$ [arguments_source] | xe -j [max-jobs] [command]