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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" @(#)apply.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/4/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 13, 2006
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.Dt APPLY 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm apply
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.Nd apply a command to a set of arguments
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl a Ar c
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.Op Fl d
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.Op Fl #
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.Ar command argument ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility runs the named
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.Ar command
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on each
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argument
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.Ar argument
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in turn.
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.Pp
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Character sequences of the form
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.Dq Li \&%d
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in
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.Ar command ,
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where
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.Sq Li d
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is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the
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.Li d Ns \'th
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following unused
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.Ar argument .
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In this case, the largest digit number of arguments are discarded for
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each execution of
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.Ar command .
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl #
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Normally arguments are taken singly; the optional number
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.Fl #
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specifies the number of arguments to be passed to
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.Ar command .
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If the number is zero,
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.Ar command
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is run, without arguments, once for each
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.Ar argument .
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.Pp
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If any sequences of
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.Dq Li \&%d
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occur in
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.Ar command ,
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the
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.Fl #
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option is ignored.
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.It Fl a Ar c
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The use of the character
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.Sq Li %
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as a magic character may be changed with the
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.Fl a
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option.
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.It Fl d
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Display the commands that would have been executed, but do not actually
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execute them.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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The following environment variable affects the execution of
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.Nm :
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.Bl -tag -width SHELL
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.It Ev SHELL
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Pathname of shell to use.
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If this variable is not defined, the Bourne shell is used.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /bin/sh -compact
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.It Pa /bin/sh
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default shell
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Bl -tag -width apply -compact
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.It Li "apply echo *"
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is similar to
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.Xr ls 1 ;
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.It Li "apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
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compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
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.It Li "apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
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runs
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.Xr who 1
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5 times; and
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.It Li "apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
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links all files in the current directory to the directory
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.Pa /usr/joe .
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.El
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Rob Pike
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.Sh BUGS
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Shell metacharacters in
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.Ar command
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may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
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commands in single quotes
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.Pq '' .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility does not recognize multibyte characters.
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