[oclug]an actual linux question ;-)

[gabriel]

On January 24, 2003 01:42 pm, Patrick Smith wrote:
> find x -type f -print0 | xargs -0 --replace cp {} otherdir

thanks so much!  i ended up using the above and all is going well.  (it's 
still going since i'm doing this to multiple cds).  my question now is "what 
did i do?

to clarify, i understand that i'm asking find to look for all files in 
directory "x" and that it should separate the files with a null byte.  i then 
pipe the output of find to xargs with then separates the files on that null 
byte...  but that's where i leave off.

what is this "--replace cp {}" business?


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