Why not just use xargs?
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On May 29, 2010, at 9:42 PM, "Carl T. Miller" <carl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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* ../$directory2/ cannot work.
Try this:
ls | while read file; do mv "$file" ../$directory2; done
c
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