On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
> > I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
> > list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.
>
> If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):
>
> cp $(cat myfile) /othe
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On 01-Oct-2003, Martin Vana wrote message "newbie question - how to pass
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> I was just wondering
In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
> I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
> list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.
If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):
cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/
If the list is large:
xargs < myfile -J% cp
Hi,
I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of path/files
to
programs like cp/mv.
Thanx
Martin
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