On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:27:04 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Not all users use /bin/sh. Scripts needn't be written > in /bin/sh, and xargs can be used interactively, too (I > use it a lot). Just because _our_ xargs works fine with > _our_ /bin/sh doesn't mean there is no problem. So we have two problems: 1) Calling cp(1) repetitively is inefficient. 2) The argument list is too big for cp(1). Extending cp(1) will not solve (2). Extending xargs(1) will solve both. So why is an extension to cp(1) being proposed? Ciao, Sheldon. 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... 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 'xargs... Brian Somers
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'x... Sheldon Hearn
- Re: cp -d dir patch for review (... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Sheldon Hearn
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Sheldon Hearn
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Brian Dean
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Karsten W. Rohrbach
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Brian Somers
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Jordan Hubbard
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Jordan Hubbard
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Dima Dorfman
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Oliver Fromme
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Brian Somers