[X-Unix] Copying to multiple directories

Brian Medley bpm-list-osx-unix at 4321.tv
Thu Mar 11 14:56:12 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:08:25AM +0100, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

> Uh, ah, I don't exactly understand how Brian's solution works (it is a
> solution, Brian, right?), and I hesitate to run any command that I don't
> understand "just to find out". (c:
> 
> (It's this "echo" that confuses me ... I would have expected something like
> "exec" or ` `? And then there are no ' ' or " " afterwards for what is
> handed to "echo"?)

Well, as others have pointed out it is not exactly a 100%
solution.  More of a demoanstration.  I should have pointed that
out.  Been using Unix so long, that I'm getting as terse as it
is...:)

Have the other's explanations helped?

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