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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Subject: Problem with xargs
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.143734.26007@pinet.aip.org>
Organization: American Institute of Physics
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 14:37:34 GMT


I am trying to use xargs on a Dec 5000 under Ultrix 4.0. Here is what I type:

ls /usr/xy1/marc/tmp | xargs -i -t cp /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/\{} /tmp/\{}
cp /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/CRONTST /tmp/CRONTST
cp /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/core /tmp/core
cp /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/default.DECterm /tmp/default.DECterm
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

While it does the copy it also core dumps. I have tried the same
command on a Berkeley system and it runs fine. Am I doing something wrong?

marc
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