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Created April 17, 2014 14:34
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
# This script will display a count of the arguments passed to it,
# once each time it is called by xargs.
#
# To show how xargs works:
#
# seq 1 1000000 | xargs ./count-args
echo Called once by xargs with $# arguments.
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