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Character sequences of the form "%d" in command, where 'd' is a digit from 1 to 9, are replaced by the d 'th 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 a*"
	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/joe'" *
	links all files in the current directory to the directory `/usr/joe`.