9XA(1)

NAME
	9xa

SYNOPSIS
	9xa [-n number] [-f file] program arg ...


DESCRIPTION
	Options are
	-n number: nuber of args given to the program. the default is 20
	-f file: the file is used instead of standard input.

	9xa is a program that is similar to Xargs in UNIX.
	Xargs allows multiple file names per line.
	However such tolerance makes other problems.
	Think that file name contains spaces.
	Xargs has "-0" option for such case.
	However the option cannot not collaborate with other familiar tools such as sort.
	9xa's input is a list of file names like Xargs but 9xa insists one file name per line.
	That is, NL('\n') is the only separator of the list in 9xa.
	File names must be plain form that can be accepted as it is by open() function.
	That means, shell script specific syntax is not allowed.

NOTE
	9front has similar program named xargs.
	The synopsis is somewhat different from 9xa.

SOURCE
	http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/netlib/cmd/9xa/

AUTHER
	Kenji Arisawa