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authorEivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-12 15:06:55 +0000
committerEivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>1999-02-12 15:06:55 +0000
commitbc64b31886394eb1d7b008332dc0fa89b31c1187 (patch)
treed29f714a992b08ba9f1cbaea9ea897a28a07de65 /usr.bin/apply
parentec10002d16340eee007c7973ebaa6dcdb4a3aea8 (diff)
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Merge from OpenBSD up to rev 1.7 (matches NetBSD rev 1.4):
Misc small cleanups.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=43929
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/apply')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/apply/apply.126
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/apply/apply.1 b/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
index 712feb4bcfb7..b2d4873a7010 100644
--- a/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
+++ b/usr.bin/apply/apply.1
@@ -41,9 +41,10 @@
.Nm apply
.Op Fl a Ns Ar c
.Op Fl Ns Ar #
-.Ar command argument ...
+.Ar command argument
+.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Apply
+.Nm apply
runs the named
.Ar command
on each
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ Character sequences of the form
in
.Ar command ,
where
-.Dq Li d
+.Sq Li d
is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the
.Li d Ns \'th
following unused
@@ -79,12 +80,14 @@ is run, without arguments, once for each
.Pp
If any sequences of
.Dq Li \&%d
-occur in command, the
+occur in
+.Ar command ,
+the
.Fl #
option is ignored.
.It Fl a Ns Ar c
The use of the character
-.Dq Li %
+.Sq Li %
as a magic character may be changed with the
.Fl a
option.
@@ -100,19 +103,22 @@ If this variable is not defined, the Bourne shell is used.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bl -tag -width apply -compact
.It Li "apply echo a*"
-is similar to ls(1);
+is similar to
+.Xr ls 1 ;
.It Li "apply \-2 cmp a1 b1 a2 b2 a3 b3"
compares the `a' files to the `b' files;
.It Li "apply \-0 who 1 2 3 4 5"
-runs who(1) 5 times; and
+runs
+.Xr who 1
+5 times; and
.It Li "apply \'ln %1 /usr/joe\'" *
links all files in the current directory to the directory
.Pa /usr/joe .
.El
-.Sh Files
+.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /bin/sh -compact
.It Pa /bin/sh
-Default shell
+default shell
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Rob Pike
@@ -121,7 +127,7 @@ Shell metacharacters in
.Ar command
may have bizarre effects; it is best to enclose complicated
commands in single quotes
-.Pq Sq .
+.Pq '' .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm