Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File Limit in Kernel? | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:49:13 +0100 |
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Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:
|> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:57:20PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: |> > 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.
Actually it is, because it's a kernel limit. Userspace does not have this problem in general.
|> > 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 |> |> Find has an -exec operator in the first place, so this is a little: |> |> find -maxdepth 1 -exec cp -f '{}' /usr/local/www/images ';'
Or even using the shell:
for f in *; do cp -f "$f" /usr/local/www/image; done
Andreas.
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