On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 17:24, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Joe Toon said:
> > This works on FreeBSD, it might be slightly different on your Linux
> > distro:
> >
> > cat users | xargs -L 1 -I $$ cp /etc/skel/.procmailrc $$
> 
> 
> Here's the GNU version:
> 
> cat users | xargs -l1 cp /etc/skel/somefile
> 
> The -l1 option feeds xargs one line at a time.
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what a great list...

in just a couple of minutes, I got 2 ways to do it.

You guys are all awesome - thanks everyone

Craig