Argument List too Long

[Geofrey Rainey]

Hi,

I'm not the original poster but am interested in this thread and in
particular the "xargs" command. I'm not familiar with it, what is it and
how does one use it?

thanks.

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Cliff
Sent: Sunday, 30 May 2010 2:41 p.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Argument List too Long

Why not just use xargs?

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On May 29, 2010, at 9:42 PM, "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:

> 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* ../$directory2/ cannot work.
>
> Try this:
>
> ls | while read file; do mv "$file" ../$directory2; done
>
> c
>
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