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7.4 Invoking `xargs'
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     xargs [OPTION...] [COMMAND [INITIAL-ARGUMENTS]]

   `xargs' exits with the following status:

0
     if it succeeds

123
     if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125

124
     if the command exited with status 255

125
     if the command is killed by a signal

126
     if the command cannot be run

127
     if the command is not found

1
     if some other error occurred.

   Exit codes greater than 128 are used by the shell to indicate that a
program died due to a fatal signal.

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