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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