#xargs
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #xargs from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-08 21:50 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-08 21:50 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #xargs.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-08 21:50 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 26 public posts (spanning ~69879 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (20) · German (3) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
Node.js devs, so picture this: you run `npm install` and you get a bunch of packages with audit errors. The only thing I want to know at that point is what’s the root package that these dependencies belong to? (Running npm audit fix is a la
@parvXtl@tech.lgbt the #xargs equivalent in #PowerShell is powerful and amazing, but not text-based. 😉 1. You can use the FullName property _inside_ the foreach-Object: Get-ChildItem ~\Downloads -Recurse -File | ForEach-Object { perl .\bin
Already more than 10yrs old but I just stumbled over this great blog post showing an insanely fast local data processing pipeline simply using #find #xargs #awk . I really like the use of xargs for parallelization here. Command-line Tools c
What “xargs” means
Wikipediaxargs is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input. It converts input from standard input into arguments to a command.
“Xargs” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#xargs across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #xargs straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/xargs