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Simple bash loop and xargs example
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xargs.sh
#!/bin/sh
find . -name "whatever*" | xargs -0 -I {} ls -l {}
for i in `seq 1 10`; do mv "SomeDoc$i" "SomeName$i.txt"; done
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