On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:12:56 Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:11:06AM +0100, Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> > Is it possible to pipe into mv ??
>> if you don't want to use --exec, use xargs
Be careful with xargs, if a filename contain spaces (or any other special
characters), they won't be escaped and your command line could end up
being something very nasty indeed.
Martin.
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