Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:11:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, (Brian Dean) <bsd@bsdhome.com>, (Jens Schweikhardt) <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <XFMail.20010421111142.kabaev@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <12006.987865128@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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> Your comments have nothing to do with the issue at hand. Just wrap the > first argument to cp in double-quotes, i.e. > > cp "$i" > > The point is, why bastardize tools to cope with areas beyond their > focus and well within the focus of other tools? > > Ciao, > Sheldon. 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. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru> Date: 21-Apr-2001 Time: 11:08:13 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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