Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

[Alexander Kabaev]

On 21-Apr-2001 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:06:04 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
>> How do you do this in a script:
>> 
>>   cd /topdir; find . -type f | xargs -i {} cp {} /otherdir/.
> 
> for i in `find /path/to/source -type f`; do
>       cp $i /path/to/dest/
> done
> 
> What's all the fuss about?
> 

It looks like above construct will fail horribly if any of the files in /topdir
have names with spaces in them. Think MP3 collections :)

> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 
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Date: 21-Apr-2001
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