Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:52:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, (Jens Schweikhardt) <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, (Brian Dean) <bsd@bsdhome.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <XFMail.20010421105205.kabaev@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <93802.987862964@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On 21-Apr-2001 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:06:04 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
>
>> How do you do this in a script:
>>
>> cd /topdir; find . -type f | xargs -i {} cp {} /otherdir/.
>
> for i in `find /path/to/source -type f`; do
> cp $i /path/to/dest/
> done
>
> What's all the fuss about?
>
It looks like above construct will fail horribly if any of the files in /topdir
have names with spaces in them. Think MP3 collections :)
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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