Argument List too Long

[Carl T. Miller]

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

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