[ILUG] Piping to mv

[Martin Feeney]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:12:56 Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:11:06AM +0100, Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> > Is it possible to pipe into mv ??
> 
> if you don't want to use --exec, use xargs

Be careful with xargs, if a filename contain spaces (or any other special 
characters), they won't be escaped and your command line could end up 
being something very nasty indeed.

Martin.