Build and execute command lines from standard input Accepts input from stdin and converts into argument list for specified command

find ~ -type f -name 'foo*' -print | xargs ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me  me 224 2007-10-29 18:44 /home/me/bin/foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 me  me   0 2016-09-19 12:53 /home/me/foo.txt 

Dealing with non-standard filenames with null delimiters find ~ -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs --null ls -l