On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:34:31PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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? But extending cp does solve the problem. The proposal was to make % cp -d target src1 src2 ... srcN Be equivalent to; % cp src1 src2 ... srcN target This makes cp work with xargs; % cat ReallyBigListOfFiles | xargs cp -d target -Brian 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'?) 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
- Re: cp -d dir patch for revi... Brian Somers