Re: bin/44246: enhance mv to work better with xargs

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:47:53PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:
> > mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:
...
> > And with a standard POSIX xargs it is:
> >
> > ls -1 | xargs -I X mv X newdir
> 
> Except that it doesn't work in modern world where you can easily find
> files with whitespace (and apostrophes!) in name.

There shouldn't be any problems with 'odd' filename characters, but
the -I will execute the command for every input line (aka filename).
Which isn't really the point of involving xargs.

        David

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