Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

[Ben Smithurst]

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.

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Ben Smithurst / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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