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'?) Message-ID: <20010421162436.A56976@vger.bsdhome.com> In-Reply-To: <67741.987867271@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:34:31PM %2B0200 References: <200104211527.RAA06452@lurza.secnetix.de> <67741.987867271@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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