From: Aidan Kehoe (kehoea at domain parhasard.net)
Date: Wed 19 Jun 2002 - 12:05:31 IST
Ar an 19u la de mi 6, scriobh Colm MacCarthaigh :
> 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
Nah, use the "| while read; do <operation> $REPLY; done" that Brian
Foster was using. Less prone to breakage when the files contain
whitespace in their names; of course, it still breaks when you put a
newline in a filename, but c'est la vie. It's not portable to csh
based shells (or rather, there's a different syntax there), if that is
a problem.
-- I'm not a pheasant plucker / I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I'm just a'plucking pheasants / 'Til the pheasant plucker comes.
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