Argument List too Long

[Aaron Bliss]

You may also wish to try moving the files in smaller batches to work 
around the problem.  For example, find ./ -mtime +21 -type f | xargs mv 
../ ; find ./ -mtime +14 -type f | xargs mv ../ ; etc.

Aaron

On 5/29/2010 7:22 PM, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
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> Ack, that script should, of course, read
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> for a in * ; do mv "$a" ../$directory2/ ; done
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> Sorry for the typo.
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> 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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>> I'm not at my desk, but I can be reached at 443-603-7308
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>> Sent: Sat May 29 17:41:23 2010
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>> 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.
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>>>   It is running RHEL 5.1, patching may solve the problem. But I cannot
>>> patch this server soon.
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>>> Any one can help about this ?
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