Re: find -mtime -1 | xargs scp ... user@remote:/dest/path

[patrick <rpmq@yahoo.com>]

--- will trillich <will@serensoft.com> wrote:
> quick question on xargs --
> 
> how can you have xargs work with something like scp? the FINAL
> arg to scp needs to be the destination; is there a way?
> 
> 	find . | xargs cmd
> 
> does the same thing as
> 
> 	cmd ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 ./file4
> 
> but i need it to do something like
> 
> 	cmd ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 ./file4 DESTPATH
> 

<snip>

Hi Will,

try this, using 

# find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i cmd {} DESTPATH

hth,
Patrick.
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