Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > although there was much rejoicing, I think there's no need for a > new option to cp. Just use the toolbox, it's not too hard: > > (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp > > Or even > > echo destdir >>bigfilelist > xargs cp < bigfilelist > > should do the trick. Err, neither of those will work if there are too many filenames for a single invokation of "cp" since none but the last will get the "destdir" argument. -- Ben Smithurst / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Jens Schweikhardt
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Ben Smithurst
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Mike Smith
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Jens Schweikhardt
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xar... Brian Somers
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Rodney W. Grimes
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Brian Dean
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?... Brad Huntting
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?... Rodney W. Grimes
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xar... Brian Somers
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or... Sheldon Hearn