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APPLY(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual APPLY(1) 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. In this case, the largest digit number of arguments are discarded for each execution of command. The options are as follows: -# Normally arguments are taken singly; the optional number -# specifies the number of arguments to be passed to command. If the number is zero, command is run, without arguments, once for each argument. If any sequences of "%d" occur in command, the -# option is ignored. -a magic Use magic as the magic character instead of the default `%'. -d Debug mode. Print commands to the standard output but do not actually execute them. ENVIRONMENT SHELL Pathname of shell to use. If this variable is not defined, the Bourne shell is used. FILES /bin/sh default shell EXAMPLES Operate similar to ls(1): $ apply echo * Compare the a* files to the b* files: $ apply -2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3 Run who(1) five times: $ apply -0 who 1 2 3 4 5 Link all files in the current directory to the directory /home/joe: $ apply 'ln %1 /home/joe' * SEE ALSO sh(1), xargs(1) HISTORY The apply command appeared in 4.2BSD. AUTHORS Rob Pike BUGS Shell metacharacters in command may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated commands in single quotes (''). FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 September 8, 2014 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8