--- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quick question on xargs -- > > how can you have xargs work with something like scp? the FINAL > arg to scp needs to be the destination; is there a way? > > find . | xargs cmd > > does the same thing as > > cmd ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 ./file4 > > but i need it to do something like > > cmd ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 ./file4 DESTPATH >
<snip> Hi Will, try this, using # find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i cmd {} DESTPATH hth, Patrick. -- __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]