> Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Or maybe something to indicate where the list of arguments
> > should go in a command. Hrm. Let's say '-Y replstr' or
> > '-y[replstr]' (no blank after -y). If no [replstr] is
> > given on -y, it defaults to the two characters '[]'.
> > Then one might do:
> > cat big_file_list | xargs -y cp [] target_directory
>
> This is a great idea! I'm willing to implement it if nobody else
> wants to.
If you add this (which I think is a good idea), please make it option
free with {} as the default arglist and -i to override that string in
line with sysv's xargs:
find something | xargs cp {} target_directory
or
find something | xargs -i '[]' cp '[]' target_directory
Although it's possible to break something that uses a literal {} as
an argument, I think this is better than introducing semantics
that'll confuse people.
> Dima Dorfman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers.
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