James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> cat file4 | xargs mv /var/spool/mqueue/'{}' \
> /var/spool/mqueue/offline
To provide an alternate way (thanks Dag, learned a new xargs switch :) )
I would instintively write this bash command as:
while read filename && [[ "$filename" != end ]]
do
mv -f "/var/spool/mqueue/$filename" /var/spool/mqueue/offline/
done < "/path/to/file4"
hth,
-te
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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
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