Brian Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But extending cp does solve the problem. Only for cp. It wouldn't solve the problem for mv, ln and a bunch of other tools. Fixing it at _one_ place in xargs would solve all of that without touching a dozen tools. > [...] > This makes cp work with xargs; > > % cat ReallyBigListOfFiles | xargs cp -d target That's actually a bad example anyway, because you would use cpio in that case, not xargs|cp. It's also a bad example for using cat, but that's a different story. :-) cpio -dup target < ReallyBigListOfFiles Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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