What's wrong with this command?

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:38, the famous Bill Warner wrote:

Terrific!!! But I have some questions-> GO FIGURE! :)

> I was doing something almost exaclty the same as this.
>
> I was duplicating directory structures and hardlinking files for use
> with nfs root filesystems.
>

> these were the commands I came up with:
>     cd /$backupdir
>     find ../$sourcedir -type d | cut -c 13-256 |xargs mkdir

why did you not go directly to the -exec mkdir -> even with the cut
operation. I guess I'm curious why people say I should be doing it the xargs
way?

>       cd /$sourcedir
>     find . -type f -exec ln {} /$root/$destination/{} \;

But again I would think that I could substitute my -exec and it would work

It doesn't and I can't figure out why.. Hmm.


>
> the cut used in the first one was to cut off the base direcitory because
> find was returning more than what i wanted. you may need to adjust the
> size of the cut to fit your situations. I am only now starting to
> revisit this script for use again so YMMV.
>
>
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