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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)apply.1     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH APPLY 1 "April 29, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: apply \- apply a command to a set of arguments
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B apply
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-a\fIc\fP
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-\fIn\fP
        !            17: ] command args ...
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: .I Apply
        !            20: runs the named
        !            21: .I command
        !            22: on each
        !            23: argument
        !            24: .I arg
        !            25: in turn.
        !            26: Normally arguments are chosen singly; the optional number
        !            27: .I n
        !            28: specifies the number of arguments to be passed to
        !            29: .I command.
        !            30: If
        !            31: .I n
        !            32: is zero,
        !            33: .I command
        !            34: is run without arguments once for each
        !            35: .I arg.
        !            36: Character sequences of the form %\fId\fP
        !            37: in
        !            38: .I command,
        !            39: where
        !            40: .I d
        !            41: is a digit from 1 to 9,
        !            42: are replaced by the
        !            43: \fId\fP'th following unused
        !            44: .I arg.
        !            45: If any such sequences occur,
        !            46: .I n
        !            47: is ignored,
        !            48: and the number of arguments passed to
        !            49: .I command
        !            50: is the maximum value of
        !            51: .I d
        !            52: in
        !            53: .I command.
        !            54: The character `%' may be changed by the
        !            55: .B \-a
        !            56: option.
        !            57: .PP
        !            58: Examples:
        !            59: .RS
        !            60: apply echo *
        !            61: .RE
        !            62: is similar to ls(1);
        !            63: .RS
        !            64: apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 ...
        !            65: .RE
        !            66: compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
        !            67: .RS
        !            68: apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5
        !            69: .RE
        !            70: runs who(1) 5 times; and
        !            71: .RS
        !            72: apply \(aaln %1 /usr/joe\(aa *
        !            73: .RE
        !            74: links all files in the current directory to the directory /usr/joe.
        !            75: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            76: sh(1)
        !            77: .SH AUTHOR
        !            78: Rob Pike
        !            79: .SH BUGS
        !            80: Shell metacharacters in
        !            81: .I command
        !            82: may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
        !            83: commands in single quotes \(aa\ \(aa.
        !            84: .sp
        !            85: There is no way to pass a literal `%2' if `%' is the
        !            86: argument expansion character.

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