Re: xargs -J

2002-11-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> At 10:10 PM -0500 11/25/02, David S. Jackson wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix > >but to no avail. Not to convince you to not use xargs, but you might look at the mmv port... mmv '*' '=1.suffix' -ph

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:10 PM -0500 11/25/02, David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix but to no avail. I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i command under GNU xargs

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 26-Nov-2002 David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix > > but to no avail. > > I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that > doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with th

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:10:03PM -0500, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix > > but to no avail. > > I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that > doesn't seem to work either. It s

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:10, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix > > but to no avail. > > I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that > doesn't seem to work either. It seems to wo

xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread David S. Jackson
Hi, I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix but to no avail. I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i command under GNU xargs, but not under Freebsd. An example would be $