xargs man page is helpful -- thank you I was missing this one. However
patch may help and that I will be doing this weekend. Let me see that
sort out the issue.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:17 PM, cliff here <c4ifford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Look in the man pages for Xargs, there are quite a few examples in there on
> how to move and delete file when the 'Argument list is too long'
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sanjay Chakraborty <sanjaychakrab@xxxxxxxxx
>> 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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