From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 09:54:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16850 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa4-36.ix.netcom.com [207.93.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16830 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11365; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807121654.JAA11365@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: miker@scifair.acadiau.ca CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Michael Richards on Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:48:21 -0300 (ADT)) Subject: Re: copying many files at once Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What do the tails of the file names look like? Numbers? letters? Maybe break it into groups by the character after page? I use csh. Maybe you can break it up into 1/60th with this. > foreach i ( a b c d e f g h i j 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) > mv ../page${i}* . > end > foreach i ( A B C D E F G H I J ) ) > mv ../page${i}* . >& /dev/null > end You may get a lot of 'No such file or directory' messages, but, ... Maybe run the output of mv to a file or /dev/null with >&. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message