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.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).