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

[Brian Somers]

> 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?

Have you tried that for values of /path/to/source with lots of files ?
Something like

  find blah | while read i; do cp $i /dest/.; done

is better, but it runs cp too many times.

> Ciao,
> Sheldon.

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