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

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

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:

>> I've taken a look at bin/44246 and attempted to implement an
>> enhancement to resolve the PR.

>IMO this is not a defect in mv, but a defect in xargs.
[...]
>With my xargs, this would be, eg, "ls -1 | xargs -kX mv X newdir".

And with a standard POSIX xargs it is:

ls -1 | xargs -I X mv X newdir

What are you talking about?

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