gregs@well.sf.ca.us (Greg Strockbine) (02/05/91)
I read in a book that you can use xargs to do the same thing to a bunch of files one at a time. So I tried it on my Ultrix system using bash1.04, sh, and csh and they all barfed. I even consulted the man page but no go. I tried something like this: ls -1 | xargs -i cp {} old.{} basically all the shells complained about the {}. So what gives, how do you use this thing anyway. What about repeat in the csh, how does that work?