What is xargs?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>> On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote:
>>>> I am new to cygwin/X.
>>>>
>>>> Using the above setup at the workplace..
>>>> I need to know about the xargs command. What does it
>>>> do ?
>>
>> As Gary said, the "man" (short for "manual") command is your friend.
>
> As is google.  The first hit is instructive.

It certainly is: it provides (as a wikipedia article) an example of poorly 
written technical material.

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