On 8 Feb 2005 at 23:14, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Compare this:
>
> echo -e "file1\nfile2\nfile3" | xargs echo '{}' blah
>
> with:
>
> echo -e "file1\nfile2\nfile3" | xargs -i echo '{}' blah
Thank you for the advice on the -i switch. I had tried this
earlier. With the -i '{}' argument added then this is the result:
# ll -d ./mqueue/offline
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:03 ./mqueue/offline
#
# cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv ./mqueue/'{}' ./mqueue/offline
xargs: {}: No such file or directory
#
# cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv ./mqueue/'{}' ./mqueue/offline/
xargs: {}: No such file or directory
#
# cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv --Target-Directory=./mqueue/offline ./mqueue/'{}'
xargs: {}: No such file or directory
#
# cat workmv | xargs -i '{}' mv --Target-Directory=./mqueue/offline/ ./mqueue/'{}'
xargs: {}: No such file or directory
#
P.S.
Also, thank you very much for the depository that you run. I use
several of your packages.
Regards,
Jim
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