bedtime question : xargs

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:59 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
> Using xargs, how can I pipe the output ( of some command ) as the 
> *first* parameter of some other command ?
> 
> Here is my problem: I have various rpm files in a directory tree. I want 
> to copy all of these files to a remote server using scp. What I am 
> thinking is
> 
> [oliver at xen2vm4 redhat]$ find . -name "*.rpm" 
> 
> ./SRPMS/hello-1.0.0-2.src.rpm
> ./SRPMS/hello-1.0.0-1.src.rpm
> ./RPMS/i686/hello-1.0.0-2.i686.rpm
> ./RPMS/i686/hello-1.0.0-1.i686.rpm
> 
> 
> # find . -name "*.rpm" | xargs  scp  ???   root at remoteserver:

perhaps

	find . -name \*.rpm | xargs scp {} root at remoteserver:


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