You need xargs replacement to do it that way..
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007sheepeatingtaz, Omahn’s method seems fine for a one-off. The problem with resiak’s suggestion is that you need text after the data that xargs would put in. One way to do it would be:
$ cd ~/fonts
$ find . -type f -iname ‘*.ttf’ -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 cp {} ~/.fonts/
The -I flag tells it […]