Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:57:35 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xargs -J Message-ID: <XFMail.20021125235735.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20021125221003.A19207@sylvester.dsj.net>
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On 26-Nov-2002 David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix
>
> but to no avail.
>
> I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that
> doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i
> command under GNU xargs, but not under Freebsd.
>
> An example would be
>
> $ touch one two three
> $ ls one two three | xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix
>
> I should now have one.suffix two.suffix three.suffix. At least,
> that's what happens with GNU and the -i \{\}. (FreeBSD manpage says
> to use -J [] without escapes though.)
>
> Can anyone lend me a clue here please?
I think what you want here is -I instead of -J. -I allows for multiple
replacements, whereas -J does not.
Also, I'd suggest using something other than [] as your placeholder, as
those characters have a special meaning in the shell. Using something
simple, like %, as the man page illustrates.
--
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
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