.TH XARGS 1 "22 February 1989".SH NAMExargs \- supply input lines as additional arguments to a command.SH SYNOPSIS.B xargs.B command[ .I argument .B .\|.\|.].SH DESCRIPTION.B xargsis way to create large command lines without the use of the shell'sbackquote mechanism.It reads its standard input and supplies each line it finds as aseparate argument to the command (and command arguments) on the commandline.The command is found using the same PATH conventions as the shelland may be a script.Because of the limitations of the local UNIX system or the great volume ofinput lines,it may run the command several times..SH EXAMPLESfind ~evi -print | xargs chown evi.brfind ~evi/recipes -print | xargs grep -i turkey.SH SEE ALSOsh(1), csh(1)