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dir: /sys/man/1/xargs/
.TH XARGS 1 .SH NAME xargs \- construct argument list and execute .SH SYNOPSIS .B xargs [ .B -n .I number ] [ .B -p .I maxprocs ] .B cmd [ .I arg ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Xargs reads .B number (default 10) lines from standard input and runs the given .B cmd with those lines as arguments. This is repeated until standard input is exhausted. .PP Options are as follows: .TP .B -n Set .I number as the maximum number of lines taken from standard input for each invocation. .TP .B -p Parallel mode: run .I maxprocs invocations at once. .SH EXAMPLE .IP .EX seq 1 9 | xargs -n 3 echo .EE .LP .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/cmd/xargs.c .SH HISTORY .I Xargs was implemented from scratch for 9front (August, 2011).