From 81a27b9c88ca07a5860d18f8b1579dbd253d87ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:09:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the copy module to use the argsfile method

---
 copy | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/copy b/copy
index 288929a89a8..632df966486 100755
--- a/copy
+++ b/copy
@@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ except ImportError:
 # to a dictionary
 # FIXME: make more idiomatic
 
-args = " ".join(sys.argv[1:])
-items = shlex.split(args)
+if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+    sys.exit(1)
+argfile = sys.argv[1]
+if not os.path.exists(argfile):
+    sys.exit(1)
+items = shlex.split(open(argfile, 'r').read())
+
+
 params = {}
 for x in items:
     (k, v) = x.split("=")