Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:26:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: schweikh@schweikhardt.net (Jens Schweikhardt) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <200104210226.TAA68957@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20010420235419.B1276@schweikhardt.net> from Jens Schweikhardt at "Apr 20, 2001 11:54:19 pm"
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> > 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 I like this version of the patch!! It's much much cleaner than hacking up cp or xargs, it even follows the unix principle of using simple tools and glueing them togeather to do bigger jobs, is unix implementation independent, and is very clear in what it does. [You even taugh this old dog a new trick he totally blanked out on!!] > > Or even > > echo destdir >>bigfilelist > xargs cp < bigfilelist > > should do the trick. I don't like this one, bigfilelist gets modified and may need to be used again for something else. Please don't commit this version of the patch :-) > Regards, > > Jens > -- > Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ > SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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