Annotation of src/usr.bin/apply/apply.1, Revision 1.1.1.1
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34: .\" @(#)apply.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/4/94
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36: .Dd April 4, 1994
37: .Dt APPLY 1
38: .Os BSD 4.2
39: .Sh NAME
40: .Nm apply
41: .Nd apply a command to a set of arguments
42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
43: .Nm apply
44: .Op Fl a Ns Ar c
45: .Op Fl Ns Ar #
46: .Ar command argument ...
47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
48: .Nm Apply
49: runs the named
50: .Ar command
51: on each
52: argument
53: .Ar argument
54: in turn.
55: .Pp
56: Character sequences of the form
57: .Dq Li \&%d
58: in
59: .Ar command ,
60: where
61: .Dq Li d
62: is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the
63: .Li d Ns \'th
64: following unused
65: .Ar argument .
66: In this case, the largest digit number of arguments are discarded for
67: each execution of
68: .Ar command .
69: .Pp
70: The options are as follows:
71: .Bl -tag -width "-ac"
72: .It Fl Ns Ar #
73: Normally arguments are taken singly; the optional number
74: .Fl #
75: specifies the number of arguments to be passed to
76: .Ar command .
77: If the number is zero,
78: .Ar command
79: is run, without arguments, once for each
80: .Ar argument .
81: .Pp
82: If any sequences of
83: .Dq Li \&%d
84: occur in command, the
85: .Fl n
86: option is ignored.
87: .It Fl a Ns Ar c
88: The use of the character
89: .Dq Li %
90: as a magic character may be changed with the
91: .Fl a
92: option.
93: .El
94: .Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
95: The following environment variable affects the execution of
96: .Nm apply :
97: .Bl -tag -width SHELL
98: .It Ev SHELL
99: Pathname of shell to use.
100: If this variable is not defined, the Bourne shell is used.
101: .El
102: .Sh EXAMPLES
103: .Bl -tag -width apply -compact
104: .It Li "apply echo a*"
105: is similar to ls(1);
106: .It Li "apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
107: compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
108: .It Li "apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
109: runs who(1) 5 times; and
110: .It Li "apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
111: links all files in the current directory to the directory
112: .Pa /usr/joe .
113: .El
114: .Sh Files
115: .Bl -tag -width /bin/sh -compact
116: .It Pa /bin/sh
117: Default shell
118: .El
119: .Sh AUTHOR
120: Rob Pike
121: .Sh BUGS
122: Shell metacharacters in
123: .Ar command
124: may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
125: commands in single quotes
126: .Pq Sq .
127: .Sh HISTORY
128: The
129: .Nm
130: command appeared in
131: .Bx 4.2 .