Re: File Limit in Kernel?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:

|> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:57:20PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
|> > 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.

Actually it is, because it's a kernel limit.  Userspace does not have
this problem in general.

|> > 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
|> 
|> Find has an -exec operator in the first place, so this is a little:
|> 
|> find -maxdepth 1 -exec cp -f '{}' /usr/local/www/images ';'

Or even using the shell:

for f in *; do cp -f "$f" /usr/local/www/image; done

Andreas.

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