From 8669b49b00c68753f9bcc191a9591c054416fbdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:43:42 -0500
Subject: add xargs(1) man page

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 sys/man/1/xargs | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 sys/man/1/xargs

(limited to 'sys/man/1/xargs')

diff --git a/sys/man/1/xargs b/sys/man/1/xargs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db0af6260
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys/man/1/xargs
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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
+]
+.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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