# $Id: README,v 3.1 1997/09/21 01:44:31 ksb Exp $

I needed "apply" to do a project under HPUX and HPUX 9.05 didn't have
it.  So I went to get the FreeBSD one and it uses a _brain_ _damaged_
err()/errx() hack in crt0.c and libc.  Eak!

So I coded a better one and will just drag it around with me.  Runs
under (at least) SunOS, AIX, IRIX, HPUX, and FreeBSD.

The -P option is stolen from the Dynix 3 system as I remember it:  if
you don't give one you get 1 task, -P gives you $PARALLEL with a default
3 if the variable is not set.  Or -Pn gives you n, of course.  Try -P10
on most machines.

I use something like
	find /tmp $cruft_files_spec -print | xapply -fP5 -7 rm - - - - - - -
to clean up /tmp.  This pumps as it keeps 5 /bin/rm's running and
keeps reading files the whole time.  Even faster than xargs.

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"He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
 and he who dares not is a slave."     -- Sir William Drummond
ksb, Kevin Braunsdorf, ksb@fedex.com, work phone (901)922-2451