Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:33:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: miker@scifair.acadiau.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying many files at once Message-ID: <199807121633.MAA15124@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712124603.14079A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca>
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> > Hi. > This is a silly question, but in its sillyness I can't make it work! > > [root@frodo www]# mv ../page* . > bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long > > There are about 50,000 files that begin with 'page' and I want to move 'em > all into the /var/spool/www directory from /var/spool > > mv doesn't seem to like what the shell does to the '*' Any ideas? > > -Mike > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Yes - you need to use 'xargs'. See the xargs man page. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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