[Centos] help with xargs and mv

[tengel at fluid.com (Troy Engel)]

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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