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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Subject: Re: problem with xargs
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.152556.23457@pinet.aip.org>
Organization: American Institute of Physics
References: <1991Apr19.154624.27315@pinet.aip.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 15:25:56 GMT

In article <1991Apr19.154624.27315@pinet.aip.org> marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener) writes:
> 
>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 mv /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/\{} /tmp/\{}
>mv /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/CRONTST /tmp/CRONTST
>mv /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/core /tmp/core
>mv /usr/xy1/marc/tmp/default.DECterm /tmp/default.DECterm
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 

Following up my opwn posting and thanks to the suggestion of Jack Bryans I 
am  now using GNU's xargs which works without problems.

marc
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