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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-30 06:50:52 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-30 06:50:52 +0000
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mdoc(7) police: punctuation, miscellaneous.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1 b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
index 1d160a0..e885652 100644
--- a/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
+++ b/usr.bin/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -114,18 +114,18 @@ in up to
flag is specified) arguments to
.Ar utility
with the entire line of input.
-The resulting arguments after replacement is done will not be allowed to grow
-beyond 255 bytes, this is implemented by concatenating as much of the argument
+The resulting arguments, after replacement is done, will not be allowed to grow
+beyond 255 bytes; this is implemented by concatenating as much of the argument
containing
.Ar replstr
-as possible to the constructed arguments to
-.Ar utility
+as possible, to the constructed arguments to
+.Ar utility ,
up to 255 bytes.
The 255 byte limit does not apply to arguments to
.Ar utility
which do not contain
.Ar replstr ,
-and furthermore no replacement will be done on
+and furthermore, no replacement will be done on
.Ar utility
itself.
Implies
@@ -163,12 +163,12 @@ directory to
.Dl /bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J [] cp -rp [] destdir
.Pp
.It Fl L Ar number
-Calls
+Call
.Ar utility
for every
.Ar number
lines read.
-If EOF is reached and fewer lines have been read than
+If EOF is reached and fewer lines have been read than
.Ar number
then
.Ar utility
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ causes the command to be executed, any other response causes it to be
skipped.
No commands are executed if the process is not attached to a terminal.
.It Fl R Ar replacements
-This option specifies the maximum number of arguments that
+Specify the maximum number of arguments that
.Fl I
will do replacement in.
.It Fl s Ar size
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