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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
]
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.B cmd
[
.I arg ...
]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Xargs
reads
.B number
(default 10) lines from
standard input and runs the given commands with those lines as arguments. The utility is repeatedly executed one or more times until standard input is exhausted.
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.PP
Options are as follows:
.TP
.B -n
Set
.I number
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as the maximum number of lines taken from standard input for each invocation.
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.TP
.B -p
Parallel mode: run
.I maxprocs
invocations at once.
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/xargs.c
