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. I'm not at my desk, but I can be reached at 443-603-7308 ----- Original Message ----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sat May 29 17:41:23 2010 Subject: Re: Argument List too Long -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'd replace it with a little bash scripting for a in $ ; do mv "$a" ../$directory2/ ; done 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. > > It is running RHEL 5.1, patching may solve the problem. But I cannot > patch this server soon. > > Any one can help about this ? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwBmBMACgkQdBNH6NIpz0XNVwCfSFF9uv8CWy66CeDQg56Y3P2I 5ZIAmwZ2rVnjkCaiCFDLOsYHVDNvQCak =IZ43 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list