CentOS - Jun 2006 - -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

what's a workaround for this?

-bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long



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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 at 10:41pm, Mark Quitoriano wrote
> what's a workaround for this?
>
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
More info would be helpful, but as a first approximation:

tar cO $LISTOFSTUFFTOMOVE | tar xC /path/to/move/stuff/to -f -

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> what's a workaround for this?
> 
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
do things in batches rather than all at once - so sort alphabetically or 
something

On 15/06/06, Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at gmail.com>
wrote:
> what's a workaround for this?
>
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
Isn't it usually xargs?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Argument+list+too+long&meta
Yep.

Will.

On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:41, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> what's a workaround for this?
>
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
can't you use something like

find . -exec mv {}?\; /new/location

it's just an idea like this...

if not

mv a* ..
mv b* .. etc

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:41 +0800, Mark Quitoriano
wrote:
> what's a workaround for this?
> 
> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
More info? Well, presuming you want to move a whole (sub-directory) of
stuff, the quick and painless way is a find piped to cpio. You'll need
to review a cpio or find man page, but something like this might be
useful

   find [abc]* -depth | cpio -pdumav </your/target/directory>

The "-depth" is optional, but has uses. The cpio "a" resets
the access
time (a problem if your source is read only, drop it) and the "v" says
be noisy about your job.

HTH
> <snip>
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On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:41 +0800, Mark Quitoriano
wrote:
> what's a workaround for this?
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> -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
Almost forgot. Instead of find, if the names can be echoed into a file,
then

    cpio -pdumav </your/target/directory> </the_input_file
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On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:56, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:41 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> > what's a workaround for this?
> >
> > -bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
>
> Almost forgot. Instead of find, if the names can be echoed into a file,
> then
>
>     cpio -pdumav </your/target/directory> </the_input_file
>
> > <snip>
or if you do it with a file .. 
ls dir > file.txt

perl -pi -e 's/^/mv /' file.txt
perl -pi -e 's/$/\/new\/path\/for\/files/' file.txt

chmod a+x file.txt
./file.txt

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