[Centos] help with xargs and mv

Wed Feb 9 20:03:01 UTC 2005
James B. Byrne <ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca>

It appears that xargs really, really does not like a wildcard in 
the command construction.

#cat workmid | xargs -i mv ./mqueue/df'{}' ./mqueue/offline
#cat workmid | xargs -i mv ./mqueue/qf'{}' ./mqueue/offline

work and move the files, but neither of:

#cat workmid | xargs -i mv ./mqueue/*'{}' ./mqueue/offline
#cat workmid | xargs -i mv ./mqueue/\*'{}' ./mqueue/offline

work.  Bizarre.

Thanks for all of the assistance.  This was really helpful.

Regards,
Jim

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