apply(1): apply - apply a command to a set of arguments

APPLY(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual APPLY(1)

NAME

applyapply a command to a set of arguments

SYNOPSIS

apply [-a c] [-d] [-#] command argument ...

DESCRIPTION

The apply utility runs the named command on each argument argument in turn.
Character sequences of the form "%d" in command, where ‘d' is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the d́th 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

The following environment variable affects the execution of apply:
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/joé *
links all files in the current directory to the directory /usr/joe.

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 ('').
The apply utility does not recognize multibyte characters.
December 13, 2006 FreeBSD 9.0


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