im doing mv a* mv b* right now but i have more than 200K files to be moved is there a faster way? On 6/15/06, Charles Lacroix <clacroix at cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca> wrote: > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:41, Mark Quitoriano wrote: > > what's a workaround for this? > > > > -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long > > can't you use something like > > find . -exec mv {}\; /new/location > > it's just an idea like this... > > if not > > mv a* .. > mv b* .. etc > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060615/d9cf9515/attachment-0004.html>