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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Subject: xargs
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.170225.7261@pinet.aip.org>
Organization: American Institute of Physics
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 17:02:25 GMT


I'm trying to use xargs on a Dec 5000 running Ultrix 4.0. While the
following works, it also core dumps:

ls /usr/xy1/aip/bin | xargs -i -t cp /usr/xy1/aip/bin/\{} /tmp

I had the same problem with a System V.0 machine. Am I doing something
wrong?

marc
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