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apply(1)							      apply(1)

NAME
       apply - Applies a command to a set of arguments

SYNOPSIS
       apply [-acharacter] [-number] command argument...

       The apply command runs the specified command on each argument in turn.

OPTIONS
       Identifies the character used instead of the % (percent sign) to desig‐
       nate argument substitution strings.  Specifies the number of  arguments
       to be passed to command.

DESCRIPTION
       Normally, arguments are chosen individually; the optional number speci‐
       fies the number of arguments to be passed to command. If	 number	 is  0
       (zero), command is run without arguments once for each argument.

       If  you	include character sequences of the form %n (where n is a digit
       from 1 to 9) in command, they are replaced by the nth  unused  argument
       following  command  when	 command  is  executed.	 If any such sequences
       occur, number is ignored, and the number of arguments passed to command
       is the maximum value of n in command.

       You  can	 specify  a character other than % (percent sign) to designate
       argument substitution character strings with the -a option;  for	 exam‐
       ple,  -a@  would	 indicate  that	 the  sequences	 @1  and @2 were to be
       replaced by the first and second unused arguments following command.

NOTES
       Shell metacharacters in command may have	 undesirable  effects;	it  is
       best to enclose complicated commands in '  ' (single quotes).

       There  is no way to pass a % (percent sign) followed immediately by any
       number if % is the argument expansion character.

EXAMPLES
       The following command is similar to ls: apply echo * The following com‐
       mand compares the file a1 to the file b1, a2 to b2, and so on: apply -2
       cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 ...  The following command runs who 5 times:  apply  -0
       who  1  2  3  4	5 The following command links all files in the current
       directory to the directory /usr/joe: apply 'ln %1 /usr/joe' *

SEE ALSO
       Commands:  sh(1), xargs(1)

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