APPLY(1) - General Commands Manual # APPLY(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # apply - apply a command to a set of arguments SYNOPSIS # apply [-‌#] [-d] [-a magic] command argument … DESCRIPTION # apply runs the named command on each given argument in turn. Character sequences of the form “%d” in command, where ’d' is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the d‘th following unused argument. ...
FIND(1) - General Commands Manual # FIND(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # find - walk a file hierarchy SYNOPSIS # find [-dHhLXx] [-f path] path … [expression] DESCRIPTION # find recursively descends the directory tree for each path listed, evaluating an expression (composed of the “primaries” and “operators” listed below) in terms of each file in the tree. In the absence of an expression, -print is assumed. If an expression is given, but none of the primaries -delete, -exec, -execdir, -ls, -ok, -print, or -print0 are specified, the given expression is effectively replaced by ( given expression ) -print. ...
XARGS(1) - General Commands Manual # XARGS(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility SYNOPSIS # xargs [-0oprt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements]] [-J replstr] [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs] [-s size] [utility [argument …]] DESCRIPTION # The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline, and end-of-file delimited strings from the standard input and executes the specified utility with the strings as arguments. ...