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xargs -- Command Execute a command with many arguments xargs command argument ... argument COHERENT limits the amount of memory available to hold a command's arguments; therefore, a command will fail if its list of arguments exceeds this limit. This limit is set by the constant BUFSIZ, which is defined in the header file stdio.h. To avoid this problem, COHERENT offers the command xargs. This command executes command and passes to it every argument. An argument can be an option to command, the name of a file, or anything else that commands expects. xargs then redirects the standard input into command. xargs is careful not to exceed the system-imposed limit, which is expected to be greater than BUFSIZ. It continues to execute command with the read-in arguments until it reaches end-of-file. See Also commands, exec, execution Notes The COHERENT implementation of xargs performs only the most basic -- and most important -- behaviors of xargs. You must rewrite all scripts that depend upon the more exotic behaviors of the System-V implementation of xargs.