Date: 26 Nov 2002 13:26:47 +1000 From: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> To: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xargs -J Message-ID: <1038281207.1512.41.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> In-Reply-To: <20021125221003.A19207@sylvester.dsj.net> References: <20021125221003.A19207@sylvester.dsj.net>
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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 work fine with the -i
> command under GNU xargs, but not under Freebsd.
>
> An example would be
>
> $ touch one two three
> $ ls one two three | xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix
>
> I should now have one.suffix two.suffix three.suffix. At least,
> that's what happens with GNU and the -i \{\}. (FreeBSD manpage says
> to use -J [] without escapes though.)
>
> Can anyone lend me a clue here please?
I've never tried to do it this way, but I suspect that you can only use
your delimiter once.
In any case, if what you are wanting to do is rename a bunch of files,
try something like:
# for file in one two three; do mv $file `echo $file | sed -e
's/$/.suffix/'`; done
That's the way I've always done it - works a treat (try doing THAT with
a GUI :-)
Hope it helps, unless you had your heart set on xargs
Regards,
Duncan Anker
Senior Systems Administrator
Dark Blue Sea
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