From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Adam Voigt <adam@cryptocomm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File Limit in Kernel?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:57:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211121657.20437.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037115535.1439.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-12 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-12 15:38 File Limit in Kernel? Adam Voigt
2002-11-12 15:57 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2002-11-13 9:51 ` Jan Hudec
2002-11-13 10:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-12 16:01 ` Kent Borg
2002-11-12 16:26 ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-12 16:06 ` Chris Friesen
2002-11-12 16:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-12 16:12 ` Matt Reppert
2002-11-12 16:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-12 23:23 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <1037115535.1439.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-12 15:53 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-12 21:54 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-19 15:14 ` Shalon Wood
2002-11-19 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-12 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
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