Argument List too Long

[Stephen Gilbert]

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Ack, that script should, of course, read

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

Sorry for the typo.

On 5/29/2010 7:17 PM, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> 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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> Subject: Re: Argument List too Long
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> I'd replace it with a little bash scripting
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> for a in $ ; do mv "$a" ../$directory2/ ; done
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> 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.
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> 
>> 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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