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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:24:36 -0400
From: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)
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In-Reply-To: <67741.987867271@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:34:31PM +0200
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:34:31PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> So we have two problems:
> 
> 1) Calling cp(1) repetitively is inefficient.
> 
> 2) The argument list is too big for cp(1).
> 
> Extending cp(1) will not solve (2).  Extending xargs(1) will solve both.
> So why is an extension to cp(1) being proposed?

But extending cp does solve the problem.  The proposal was to make

	% cp -d target src1 src2 ... srcN

Be equivalent to;

	% cp src1 src2 ... srcN target

This makes cp work with xargs;

	% cat ReallyBigListOfFiles | xargs cp -d target

-Brian

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