ref: c3e15a766362e2a9a6ef050535772188529c5548
parent: 1ad6d442496c77cb7974c2f4aa2a7c6821d72763
author: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
date: Sun Jul 8 15:58:57 EDT 2012
xargs(1): improve man page by deleting lines
--- a/sys/man/1/xargs
+++ b/sys/man/1/xargs
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
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.
+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
@@ -32,5 +34,11 @@
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
--
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