Goargs

A Utility tool to replace xargs, written in Go.

How it works

This program was designed with the idea of positional arguments.

It will replace positional arguments with input from stdin.

For example:

$ echo foo bar | goargs echo :2 :1

output: bar foo

So, in this example, goargs read foo bar from stdin, and make foo as :1, bar as :2.

That is, foo is the first positional argument, bar is the second, etc.

Then, goargs will replace positional arguments before executing the command,

So goargs echo :2 :1 will become goargs echo bar foo, then echo bar foo was executed and you got the final output.

Usage

goargs works like xargs:

1. find . -name '*.go' | goargs wc -l
2. find . -name '*.go' | goargs mv :1 :1.bak
3. find . -name '*.go' | awk -F. '{print $1, $2, $3}' | goargs echo :3.:2.:1