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

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/44246; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/44246: enhance mv to work better with xargs
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:42:04 +0000 (UTC)

 dyoung%pobox.com@localhost (David Young) writes:
 
 > I'm inclined to agree that the defect is in xargs, since it seems to me
 > that we can fix the defect once in xargs or fix it over and over and
 > over again as we find new utilities that work together with xargs worse
 > than we'd like.
 
 What defect?
 
 % echo 1 2 3 | xargs -I % echo mv % destdir
 mv 1 2 3 destdir
 
 That's even a standard option.
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