[ILUG] Piping to mv

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an 19u la de mi 6, scriobh Colm MacCarthaigh :

 > 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

Nah, use the "| while read; do <operation> $REPLY; done" that Brian
Foster was using. Less prone to breakage when the files contain
whitespace in their names; of course, it still breaks when you put a
newline in a filename, but c'est la vie. It's not portable to csh
based shells (or rather, there's a different syntax there), if that is
a problem. 

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