From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 20 15: 0:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bremen.shuttle.de (bremen.shuttle.de [194.95.249.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F3A37B43E for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:00:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schweikh@schweikhardt.net) Received: by bremen.shuttle.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 70D8617D2E; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:00:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from schweikh@localhost) by hal9000.schweikhardt.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3KLsJU02275 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:54:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from schweikh) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:54:19 +0200 From: Jens Schweikhardt To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <20010420235419.B1276@schweikhardt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, although there was much rejoicing, I think there's no need for a new option to cp. Just use the toolbox, it's not too hard: (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp Or even echo destdir >>bigfilelist xargs cp < bigfilelist should do the trick. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message