Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:32:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Martin Vana <martin.vana@vslib.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument Message-ID: <20031001203209.GA2421@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20031001232109.0ae5bfd4.martin.vana@vslib.cz> References: <20031001232109.0ae5bfd4.martin.vana@vslib.cz>
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In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said: > I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with > list of path/files to programs like cp/mv. If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total): cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/ If the list is large: xargs < myfile -J% cp % /otherdir/ -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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