On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:57:37AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> digression: would anyone like it if cp(1) and mv(1) (and maybe
> others?) both had a "-t target" options so that you could do things
> like:
> 
>     find foo -type f -name \*.bar | xargs mv -t otherthere
> 
> or is it just me?

Wouldn't it be "more portable" if xargs was updated to be more complete?
HP-UX xargs allows for the substitution of a string with the input
given to xargs. The string to be substituted can be specified with an
additional argument. 

find foo -type f -name \*.bar | xargs -iBAZ mv BAZ otherthere

As near as I can tell offhand, GNU and HP-UX xargs support this.
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