Comments on: You need xargs replacement to do it that way.. http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/ I'll get there one day. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: perldog http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/comment-page-1/#comment-11159 perldog Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:09:50 +0000 http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/#comment-11159 Well this got me thinking, and as a result, I discovered the --target-directory (-t) option of cp, which I never knew existed, so you can write it the other way around (destination first) and use xargs as 'normal'. find ~/fonts/ -type f -iname '*.ttf' -print0 | xargs -0 cp --target-directory=~/.fonts/ Well this got me thinking, and as a result, I discovered the –target-directory (-t) option of cp, which I never knew existed, so you can write it the other way around (destination first) and use xargs as ‘normal’.

find ~/fonts/ -type f -iname ‘*.ttf’ -print0 | xargs -0 cp –target-directory=~/.fonts/

]]> By: Will Thompson http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/comment-page-1/#comment-10977 Will Thompson Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:49:45 +0000 http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/#comment-10977 You handily wrote out the details that I did not bother to. Thanks. :-) You handily wrote out the details that I did not bother to. Thanks. :-)

]]> By: sheepeatingtaz http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/comment-page-1/#comment-10976 sheepeatingtaz Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:40:54 +0000 http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/10/you-need-xargs-replacement-to-do-it-that-way/#comment-10976 Great stuff, cheers! Great stuff, cheers!

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