Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:56:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, bsd@bsdhome.com (Brian Dean), schweikh@schweikhardt.net (Jens Schweikhardt), freebsd-current@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <200104211856.f3LIug547373@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:22:44 %2B0200." <93802.987862964@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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> 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?
Have you tried that for values of /path/to/source with lots of files ?
Something like
find blah | while read i; do cp $i /dest/.; done
is better, but it runs cp too many times.
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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