From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 8:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp5.port.ru (mx5.port.ru [194.67.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5450C37B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kabaev@mail.ru) Received: from adsl-141-154-40-154.bostma.adsl.bellatlantic.net ([141.154.40.154] helo=kan.dnsalias.net) by smtp5.port.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #3) id 14qz33-00077i-00; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:11:45 +0400 Received: (from kan@localhost) by kan.dnsalias.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3LFBgH01066; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:11:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kan) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7p2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <12006.987865128@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:11:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Kabaev To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Cc: Brian Somers , "Rodney W. Grimes" , (Brian Dean) , (Jens Schweikhardt) , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 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