You may also wish to try moving the files in smaller batches to work
around the problem. For example, find ./ -mtime +21 -type f | xargs mv
../ ; find ./ -mtime +14 -type f | xargs mv ../ ; etc.
Aaron
On 5/29/2010 7:22 PM, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
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Ack, that script should, of course, read
for a in * ; do mv "$a" ../$directory2/ ; done
Sorry for the typo.
On 5/29/2010 7:17 PM, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
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
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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 ?
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