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1.1     ! root        1: .TH APPLY 1 "24 February 1979"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: apply \- apply a command to a set of arguments
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B apply
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B \-a\fIc\fP
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .B \-\fIn\fP
        !            10: ] command args ...
        !            11: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            12: .I Apply
        !            13: runs the named
        !            14: .I command
        !            15: on each
        !            16: argument
        !            17: .I arg
        !            18: in turn.
        !            19: Normally arguments are chosen singly; the optional number
        !            20: .I n
        !            21: specifies the number of arguments to be passed to
        !            22: .I command.
        !            23: If
        !            24: .I n
        !            25: is zero,
        !            26: .I command
        !            27: is run without arguments once for each
        !            28: .I arg.
        !            29: Character sequences of the form %\fId\fP
        !            30: in
        !            31: .I command,
        !            32: where
        !            33: .I d
        !            34: is a digit from 1 to 9,
        !            35: are replaced by the
        !            36: \fId\fP'th following unused
        !            37: .I arg.
        !            38: If any such sequences occur,
        !            39: .I n
        !            40: is ignored,
        !            41: and the number of arguments passed to
        !            42: .I command
        !            43: is the maximum value of
        !            44: .I d
        !            45: in
        !            46: .I command.
        !            47: The character `%' may be changed by the
        !            48: .B \-a
        !            49: option.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: Examples:
        !            52: .RS
        !            53: apply echo *
        !            54: .RE
        !            55: is similar to ls(1);
        !            56: .RS
        !            57: apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 ...
        !            58: .RE
        !            59: compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
        !            60: .RS
        !            61: apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5
        !            62: .RE
        !            63: runs who(1) 5 times; and
        !            64: .RS
        !            65: apply \(aaln %1 /usr/joe\(aa *
        !            66: .RE
        !            67: links all files in the current directory to the directory /usr/joe.
        !            68: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            69: sh(1)
        !            70: .SH AUTHOR
        !            71: Rob Pike
        !            72: .SH BUGS
        !            73: Shell metacharacters in
        !            74: .I command
        !            75: may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
        !            76: commands in single quotes \(aa\ \(aa.
        !            77: .sp
        !            78: There is no way to pass a literal `%2' if `%' is the
        !            79: argument expansion character.

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