Re: [CentOS] -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

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im doing mv a* mv b* right now but i have more than 200K files to be moved is there a faster way?

On 6/15/06, Charles Lacroix < clacroix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:41, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> what's a workaround for this?
>
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

can't you use something like

find . -exec mv {}\; /new/location

it's just an idea like this...

if not

mv a* ..
mv b* .. etc

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