Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:09:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Message-ID: <200104212109.f3LL9X549119@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:34:31 %2B0200." <67741.987867271@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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> 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?
I wasn't proposing that cp should be changed - I don't think it
should. I'm just guilty of using a stale subject line :-/
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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