RE: Argument List too Long

Hi,

I'm not the original poster but am interested in this thread and in
particular the "xargs" command. I'm not familiar with it, what is it and
how does one use it?

thanks.

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cliff
Sent: Sunday, 30 May 2010 2:41 p.m.
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Argument List too Long

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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