Argument List too Long

[cliff here]

Look in the man pages for Xargs, there are quite a few examples in there on
how to move and delete file when the 'Argument list is too long'

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sanjay Chakraborty <sanjaychakrab at gmail.com
> 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.
>
>
> I can try with "find $directory -type f -name '*' -exec mv {}
> $directory2/. \;"  but I am not sure it will work and it will take
> time to do the testing through script modification.
>
>  It is running RHEL 5.1, patching may solve the problem. But I cannot
> patch this server soon.
>
> Any one can help about this ?
>
> --
> Regards.
> Sanjay Chakraborty
>
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