NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 c

The use of the character ‘%’ as a magic character may be changed with the -a option.

-d

Display the commands that would have been executed, 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

apply echo *

is similar to ls(1);

apply -2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3

compares the `a' files to the `b' files;

apply -0 who 1 2 3 4 5

runs who(1) 5 times; and

apply ´ln %1 /usr/joe´ *

links all files in the current directory to the directory /usr/joe.

HISTORY

AUTHORS

BUGS

The apply utility does not recognize multibyte characters.