ref: df275a7b68294513493aaccb35576f15c63cabe8
parent: 956a50e8c5b92bb5cdead2d725f6fced6e4e231e
author: stanley lieber <[email protected]>
date: Sun Jul 8 15:44:05 EDT 2012
xargs(1): clarify
--- a/sys/man/1/xargs
+++ b/sys/man/1/xargs
@@ -10,20 +10,23 @@
.B -p
.I maxprocs
]
-.I args
+.B cmd
+[
+.I arg ...
+]
.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.
+.I Xargs
+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.
.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.
+as the maximum number of lines taken from standard input for each invocation.
.TP
.B -p
Parallel mode: run