15 Jun
2006
15 Jun
'06
4:54 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:41 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
what's a workaround for this?
-bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
More info? Well, presuming you want to move a whole (sub-directory) of stuff, the quick and painless way is a find piped to cpio. You'll need to review a cpio or find man page, but something like this might be useful
find [abc]* -depth | cpio -pdumav </your/target/directory>
The "-depth" is optional, but has uses. The cpio "a" resets the access time (a problem if your source is read only, drop it) and the "v" says be noisy about your job.
HTH
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Bill