>>     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.

wouldn't that cause one execution per argument?  if so, i'd be just as
well off doing something like:

	find foo -type f -name \*.bar | \
	sh -c 'while read i; do mv $i otherthere; done'

which i also don't like.  that much.  i'd just do

	mv `find foo -type f -name \*.bar` otherthere

but there are limits on the size and length of the arg list.  :(

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