Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:08:09 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: File Limit in Kernel? |
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On 12 Nov 2002, 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 > > Is this a kernel limitation? If yes, how can I get around it? > If no, anyone know a workaround? I appreciate it. >
The '*' is expanded by your shell to be a command-line that has 39,000 file-names in it! It is probably way too long for a command- line (argument list).
The easiest way is to do:
mv -f a* /usr/local/www/images mv -f b* /usr/local/www/images mv -f c* /usr/local/www/images
... until the remaining argument list is short enough for the '*' only.
You can also do a loop in a shell if the shell's internal buffer is big enough for the expanded '*' ...
for x in * ; do mv -f $x /usr/local/www/images ; done
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Bush : The Fourth Reich of America
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