Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:53:58 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: brian@Awfulhak.org, kabaev@mail.ru Cc: sheldonh@uunet.co.za, brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, bsd@bsdhome.com, schweikh@schweikhardt.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_cp_-d_dir_patch_for_review_(or_'xargs'=3F)?= Message-ID: <200104221053.NAA86650@ipcard.iptcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200104211904.f3LJ4V547486@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:04:31 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > Sorry for butting in. Adding new non-portable functionality to solve the problem
> > which could be adequitely taken care of using existing and well known
> > techniquies is not appropriate, I completely agree with you on that.
>
> And I'm still waiting to see those well known techniques.
Attached small script should solve this problem and doesn't require
introducing incompatible option in the standard tool.
For example:
find /usr/src -type f | xargs larg cp targetdir
For speed purposes it could be implemented in raw C.
-Maxim
#!/bin/sh
if [ ${#} -le 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: larg command lastarg arg1 [arg2 ...]"
exit 0
fi
COMMAND=${1}
LASTARG=${2}
shift 2
exec ${COMMAND} "${@}" "${LASTARG}"
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