Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:01:49 -0500 | From | Kent Borg <> | Subject | Re: File Limit in Kernel? |
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:55AM -0500, 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, > [...] > "argument list too long"
No, it is not a kernel limit, it is a limit to your shell (bash, for example). Look at xargs to get around it.
A related limit is that the popular ext2 and 3 file systems get inefficient when directories have so many files. The work-around for that is to have your files either hashed or organized across a collection of directories.
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