Argument List too Long

Sat May 29 23:17:33 UTC 2010

Yeah, I've had similar problems in the past.  I figured a way to discriminate & made a script that broke them up into groups of a couple hundred or so.

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I'd replace it with a little bash scripting

for a in $ ; do mv "$a" ../$directory2/ ; done

On 5/29/2010 6:33 PM, Sanjay Chakraborty wrote:
> I have a script and that run every month, In the script it has a mv
> command and that moves about 35000 files from one directory to other
> directory. In one system it is working but in other system I am
> getting "Argument List too Long" error message.
> 
> mv* ../$directory2/ cannot work.
> 
> 
> I can try with "find $directory -type f -name '*' -exec mv {}
> $directory2/. \;"  but I am not sure it will work and it will take
> time to do the testing through script modification.
> 
>  It is running RHEL 5.1, patching may solve the problem. But I cannot
> patch this server soon.
> 
> Any one can help about this ?
> 
> 

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