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32 .\" @(#)apply.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/4/94
40 .Nd apply a command to a set of arguments
46 .Ar command argument ...
56 Character sequences of the form
62 is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the
66 In this case, the largest digit number of arguments are discarded for
70 The options are as follows:
71 .Bl -tag -width indent
73 Normally arguments are taken singly; the optional number
75 specifies the number of arguments to be passed to
77 If the number is zero,
79 is run, without arguments, once for each
90 The use of the character
92 as a magic character may be changed with the
96 Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually
100 The following environment variable affects the execution of
102 .Bl -tag -width SHELL
104 Pathname of shell to use.
105 If this variable is not defined, the Bourne shell is used.
108 .Bl -tag -width apply -compact
109 .It Li "apply echo a*"
112 .It Li "apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
113 compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
114 .It Li "apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
118 .It Li "apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
119 links all files in the current directory to the directory
123 .Bl -tag -width /bin/sh -compact
130 Shell metacharacters in
132 may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
133 commands in single quotes