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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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To: Adam Voigt <adam@cryptocomm.com>
Subject: Re: File Limit in Kernel?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:57:20 +0100
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 16:38, Adam Voigt wrote:
> I have a directory with 39,000 files in it, and I'm trying to use the cp
> command to copy them into another directory, and neither the cp or the
> mv command will work, they both same "argument list too long" when I
> use:
>
> cp -f * /usr/local/www/images
>
> or
>
> mv -f * /usr/local/www/images

Note that this is not a kernel related question. The * in the command line is 
expanded into a list of all entries in the current directory, which results 
in a command line longer than allowed. Try this instead:

find -maxdepth 1 -print0 | \
	xargs -0 --replace=% cp -f % /usr/local/www/images

--Andreas.

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