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by **Rustem Nagumano** » Wed, 05 May 1999 04:00:00

I have a dir with over 2000 files
When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
AIX answer: Arg list too long

Is there are some solution ???

by **Tony R. Benne** » Thu, 06 May 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>I have a dir with over 2000 files
>When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
>AIX answer: Arg list too long

>Is there are some solution ???

check out xargs...
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by **Dave Aronson (remove x's to rep** » Thu, 06 May 1999 04:00:00

> I have a dir with over 2000 files
> When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
> AIX answer: Arg list too long
>
> Is there are some solution ???

Aside from what others have said, don't overlook the obvious: put some
of the files in other dirs, possibly subdirs.

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by **Dave Marquard** » Thu, 06 May 1999 04:00:00

> I have a dir with over 2000 files
> When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
> AIX answer: Arg list too long

> Is there are some solution ???

Sure. Break up the list in pieces. Maybe use something like

find . -prune -print | xargs -I '{}' cp '{}' somedir

-Dave

by **Lawry Sim** » Thu, 06 May 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>I have a dir with over 2000 files
>When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
>AIX answer: Arg list too long

>Is there are some solution ???

The only solution I have found so far is to actually use the cpio command to
copy files from one directory to another.

e.g. In the directory with 2000+ files, to copy to another directory, use
the following...

find . | cpio -pduv /path/directory

Regards,
Lawry

by **Dick Wieling** » Fri, 07 May 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>check out xargs...

Yep, I agree on that. It depends on what you want to do with the files. If
for instance you want to remove all files in your directory:

ls | xargs -n 100 rm

For every 100 arguments rm is called.

Copying your files can also be done with tar:

tar cvf - . | (cd targetdir; tar xvf -)

by **Michael Pans** » Wed, 12 May 1999 04:00:00

> I have a dir with over 2000 files
> When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
> AIX answer: Arg list too long

> Is there are some solution ???

look at the command xargs

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by **Ronald S Woa** » Fri, 14 May 1999 04:00:00

The alternative is to pipe ls outpur through [e]grep or some other pattern matcher (awk/perl). The problem is that commandline expansion exceeds shell commandline limits...

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I have a dir with over 2000 files
When I try ls * (tar,cp,mv... etc.) in this dir
AIX answer: Arg list too long
Is there are some solution ???

look at the command xargs
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