xargs.1 (1815B)
1 .TH XARGS 1 sbase\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 xargs \- constuct argument list(s) and execute command 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B xargs 6 .RB [\-n 7 .IR maxargs ] 8 .RB [ \-r ] 9 .RB [ \-E 10 .IR eofstr ] 11 .RI [ cmd 12 .IR [arg... ] ] 13 .SH DESCRIPTION 14 xargs reads space, tab, newline and EOF delimited strings from stdin 15 and executes the specified cmd with the strings as arguments. 16 17 Any arguments specified on the command line are given to the command upon 18 each invocation, followed by some number of the arguments read from 19 stdin. The command is repeatedly executed one or more times until stdin 20 is exhausted. 21 22 Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`'') 23 or double (`"') quotes or backslashes ('\\'). Single quotes escape all 24 non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single 25 quote. Double quotes escape all non-double quote characters, excluding 26 newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including 27 newlines, may be escaped by a backslash. 28 .SH OPTIONS 29 .TP 30 .B \-n maxargs 31 Use at most maxargs arguments per command line. 32 .TP 33 .BI \-r 34 Do not run the command if there are no arguments. Normally the command is 35 executed at least once even if there are no arguments. 36 .TP 37 .B \-E eofstr 38 Use eofstr as a logical EOF marker. 39 .SH EXIT STATUS 40 xargs exits with one of the following values: 41 42 0 All invocations of command returned a zero exit 43 status. 44 123 One or more invocations of command returned a 45 nonzero exit status. 46 124 The command exited with a 255 exit status. 47 125 The command was killed or stopped by a signal. 48 126 The command was found but could not be executed. 49 127 The command could not be found. 50 1 Some other error occurred.