Argument List too Long

[Cliff]

Why not just use xargs?

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On May 29, 2010, at 9:42 PM, "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> c
>
>
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