Re: xargs bugs

[Eric Blake]

On 11/01/2013 01:54 AM, Xiao Wu DAI wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> it seems `echo ..` doesn't work in GNU xargs version 4.2.27 like below
> | xargs -t -i mv {}`echo {} |sed 's/mode/dai/g'`

'echo' is your friend.  Try:

echo xargs -t -i mv {} `echo {} | sed 's/mode/dai/g'`

to see that you were executing:

xargs -t -i mv {} {}

which is NOT what you wanted.  You need to use proper quoting; and since
you want to do programmatic shell actions on {}, you need your xargs to
spawn an instance of sh.  Try:

xargs -t -i sh -c 'mv "$1" "$(echo "$1" | sed 's/mode/dai/g')"' sh {}

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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