> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:26:18PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> > > (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp
> >
> > I like this version of the patch!! It's much much cleaner than
> > hacking up cp or xargs, it even follows the unix principle of
> > using simple tools and glueing them togeather to do bigger
> > jobs, is unix implementation independent, and is very clear
> > in what it does.
>
> It's clean, simple, and unfortunately, totally bogus.
>
> Try:
>
> echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | xargs -n 4 echo
>
> Now consider what would happen with the above suggested construct with
> a very long file list.
bleck... try this for your sample:
$ (echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | xargs -n 4) | while read x; do
> echo -n $x; echo " dst"
> done
1 2 3 4 dst
5 6 7 8 dst
9 dst
$
>
> I don't see a problem with adding an option to cp to treat the first
> argument as the target instead of the last argument. It's a simple
> solution, the code change is simple, and it produces the exact desired
> result. What's the problem?
It's yet another non-portable option.
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