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Summary: --lastarg foo
Project: findutils
Submitted by: yost
Submitted on: Wednesday 03/28/2007 at 16:42
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 1 - Wish
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
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Details:
If there is a way to use xargs with commands like cp, mv, ln, rsync, etc., I
don't know what that it is. Problem is that these commands (and others, of
course) don't fall into the class of programs xargs works well with, i.e.
commands of the form
cmd [ options ] arg ...
They are of the form
cmd [ options] arg ... destination
Often I want to use xargs -0 with these commands to properly handle filenames
with spaces in them.
This feature request should be crystal clear from the following example:
Z% echo 'a
b
c
d' | xargs -n 2 --lastarg destinationDir mv
mv a b destinationDir
mv c d destinationDir
Z%
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