Command-line tool

xe

brew/xe

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Simple xargs and apply replacement

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install xe

Linux

brew install xe

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 -N2 -s 'echo $2 $1'

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