On 8 Feb 2005 at 23:14, Dag Wieers wrote:
Compare this:
echo -e "file1\nfile2\nfile3" | xargs echo '{}' blah
with:
echo -e "file1\nfile2\nfile3" | xargs -i echo '{}' blah
Thank you for the advice on the -i switch. I had tried this earlier. With the -i '{}' argument added then this is the result:
# ll -d ./mqueue/offline drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:03 ./mqueue/offline # # cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv ./mqueue/'{}' ./mqueue/offline xargs: {}: No such file or directory # # cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv ./mqueue/'{}' ./mqueue/offline/ xargs: {}: No such file or directory # # cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv --Target-Directory=./mqueue/offline ./mqueue/'{}' xargs: {}: No such file or directory # # cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv --Target-Directory=./mqueue/offline/ ./mqueue/'{}' xargs: {}: No such file or directory #
P.S. Also, thank you very much for the depository that you run. I use several of your packages.
Regards, Jim
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