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| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/1/xargs | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/1/xargs b/sys/man/1/xargs index b33a6a2b7..78638d65b 100644 --- a/sys/man/1/xargs +++ b/sys/man/1/xargs @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ xargs \- construct argument list and execute 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 @@ as the maximum number of lines taken from standard input for each invocation. 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 |