bedtime question : xargs

[Christer Ekholm]

Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> writes:

> # find . -name "*.rpm" | xargs  scp  ???   root at remoteserver:
>
> How can I make each of the line to be set into the ??? of scp ?
> I do not care if the directory tree is created or not on the remote
> server

If the list of filenames is not too long, you could just print them
space-separated, and give that to scp, like this:

scp `find . -name "*.rpm" -printf "%p "` root at remoteserver

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 Christer