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--arg-file
=inputfile-a
inputfile--null
-0
--delimiter
delim-d
delimThe specified delimiter may be a single character, a C-style character
escape such as ‘\n’, or an octal or hexadecimal escape code.
Octal and hexadecimal escape codes are understood as for the
printf
command. Multibyte characters are not supported.
-E
eof-str--eof
[=
eof-str]-e
[eof-str]--help
xargs
and exit.
-I
replace-str--replace
[=
replace-str]-i
[replace-str]-L
max-lines--max-lines
[=
max-lines]-l
[max-lines]--max-args=
max-args-n
max-argsxargs
will exit.
--interactive
-p
--no-run-if-empty
-r
--max-chars=
max-chars-s
max-chars--show-limits
xargs
' choice of buffer size and the
‘-s’ option. Pipe the input from /dev/null (and perhaps
specify ‘--no-run-if-empty’) if you don't want xargs
to do
anything.
--verbose
-t
--version
xargs
and exit.
--exit
-x
--max-procs=
max-procs-P
max-procsxargs
will run as many processes as
possible simultaneously.