ref: d28285ab799597ee07e56b90f149d9c22a802885
parent: 6b7475d5e3361fe8cbfe283f07f1d6a365f5b42b
author: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
date: Sat Jul 7 11:43:42 EDT 2012
add xargs(1) man page
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys/man/1/xargs
@@ -1,0 +1,33 @@
+.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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