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[SOLVED] How to run nested xargs commands?

By photocurio

2019-07-09 13:56:32 8 Comments

I am trying to loop through all sites on a multisite network, and for each site, delete all subscriber users. I have tried this WP-CLI command:

wp site list --field=url | xargs -n 1 -I ^ wp user list --url=^ --role=subscriber --field=ID | xargs -n 2 -I % ^ wp user delete % --url=^ --reassign=4

I can't find a way to pass the ^ value to the second xargs command. Anyone?

1 comments

@Tom J Nowell 2019-07-09 14:52:44

xargs is unnecessary, something similar to this will do the job without any piping or xargs:

sites=$(wp site list --field=url)
for site in $sites
do
  users=$(wp user list --url="$site" --role=subscriber)
  for user in $users
  do
    wp user delete $user --url="$site" --reassign=4
  end
end

@photocurio 2019-07-09 18:55:31

Its been a while since I wrote a bash script, but why not? This is the script that works for me (maybe you can't put in line breaks in a comment?): #!/bin/bash sites=$(wp site list --field=url) for site in $sites do users=$(wp user list --url=$site --role=subscriber --field=ID) for user in $users do wp user delete $user --url=$site --reassign=4 done done

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