ref: 8669b49b00c68753f9bcc191a9591c054416fbdb
parent: 0b6f559ebca69f6ad8b73d376d08d77df27f11bb
author: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
date: Sat Jul 7 11:43:42 EDT 2012
add xargs(1) man page
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+.TH XARGS 1
+.SH NAME
+xargs \- construct argument list and execute
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B xargs
+[
+.B -n
+.I number
+] [
+.B -p
+.I maxprocs
+]
+.I args
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I xargs
+utility reads space, tab, newline, and end-of-file delimited strings from the standard input and executes the specified utility with the strings as arguments.
+.PP
+Any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed one or more times until standard input is exhausted.
+.PP
+Options are as follows:
+.TP
+.B -n
+Set
+.I number
+as the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation.
+.TP
+.B -p
+Parallel mode: run
+.I maxprocs
+invocations at once.
+.SH SOURCE
+.B /sys/src/cmd/xargs.c
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