Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Subject | Re: File Limit in Kernel? | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:57:20 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 16:38, Adam Voigt wrote: > I have a directory with 39,000 files in it, and I'm trying to use the cp > command to copy them into another directory, and neither the cp or the > mv command will work, they both same "argument list too long" when I > use: > > cp -f * /usr/local/www/images > > or > > mv -f * /usr/local/www/images
Note that this is not a kernel related question. The * in the command line is expanded into a list of all entries in the current directory, which results in a command line longer than allowed. Try this instead:
find -maxdepth 1 -print0 | \ xargs -0 --replace=% cp -f % /usr/local/www/images
--Andreas.
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