[CentOS] rsync arg list to long
Brian Mathis
brian.mathis at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 16:02:33 UTC 2007
On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2.
> I am getting arg list to long.
>
> I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2.
>
> I am using the default shell which is bash.
>
> How can I get past this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
I would use find and xargs. That's usually how I get around it.
You'll have to experiment though. Something like:
find ./ -type f | xargs scp .....
That's not a fully functional command!
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