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XARGS(1)                    General Commands Manual                   XARGS(1)

NAME
       xargs - construct argument list and execute

SYNOPSIS
       xargs [ -n number ] [ -p maxprocs ] cmd [ arg ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       Xargs  reads number (default 10) lines from standard input and runs the
       given cmd with those lines as arguments. This is repeated  until  stan‐
       dard input is exhausted.

       Options are as follows:

       -n     Set  number  as  the maximum number of lines taken from standard
              input for each invocation.

       -p     Parallel mode: run maxprocs invocations at once.

EXAMPLE
              seq 1 9 | xargs -n 3 echo

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/xargs.c

HISTORY
       Xargs was implemented from scratch for 9front (August, 2011).

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