bedtime question : xargs

[vu pham]

Christer Ekholm wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks, Christer. Yes, that works, too.

[root at xen2vm1 ~]# scp `find . -name "*.rpm" -printf "%p "` root at xen3:
root at xen3's password:
hello-1.0.0-2.src.rpm                         100% 3056     3.0KB/s 
00:00
hello-1.0.0-2.i686.rpm                        100% 6473     6.3KB/s 
00:00
hello-1.0.0-1.src.rpm                         100% 3058     3.0KB/s 
00:00
hello-1.0.0-1.i686.rpm                        100% 6476     6.3KB/s 
00:00
[root at xen2vm1 ~]#


Vu