Thanks Doc. It is about time I groked xargs. And thanks for the pointer to that book. Finding the time and $$ to buy it are another difficult task.
Meantime, can anyone out there tell me how to address the cdrom drive on an ibook. E.g. I want to do somethign like ... cp foo.text <cdrom> ...what is the value for <cdrom>. Sure perhaps there is probably some graphical way to do this, but why succumb to feeping creaturism? Give me back my command line, please. (especially when I want to move > 5000 files). Bill On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Doc Shipley wrote: > William L. Jarrold wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a whole lot of ascii text files (> 5000) that I want to save > > onto a cdrom via my iBook's cdrom. Any advice on how to do > > this would be appreciated. The person to whom I am giving the > > cd is not unix literate and wants all the files right there, e.g. > > not bundled via tar. > > > > Here are some cd rom related tricks that have worked on other machines... > > > > bash-2.05a$ eject > > bash: eject: command not found > > bash-2.05a$ mount /cdrom > > mount: /cdrom: unknown special file or file system. > > bash-2.05a$ > > The "Missing Manual" or "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks", both from > O'Reilly, will help a lot with stuff like this. I've come to understand > that OS X has lots of neat Unix tools, but it is NOT Unix. I'm having > to learn a new OS. > > > ...any idea how to avoid that "Argument list too long" > > error? I have been meaning to send a separate note about > > that problem for weeks now....Recent hacks have > > suggested that something like this might work... > > > > for i in ls ; do cp $i <cd-rom-incantation> ; done > > > > ...but a non-hack solution would be greatly appreciated. My perl > > is worse than my unix but I am v willing to try a perl soln but you'll > > have to be pretty explicit about what I am to do. > > man xargs > > /bin/ls * | xargs -J % cp -rp % destdir > > Should do about what you want. > > > Doc > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
