Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:21:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: user <user@dhp.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this Message-ID: <20051206112159.GB1602@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0512051842440.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <20051205231316.GA54068@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0512051842440.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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On 2005-12-05 18:44, user <user@dhp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, David Kelly wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:56:22PM -0500, user wrote:
> > [...]
> > > - since I live in 2005, what can I do to my FreeBSD system to upgrade
> > > it to handle the directories I have ? How do I fix this so I can do
> > > normal, simple command lines instead of butchered ridiculous hacks
> > > like above ?
> >
> > Upgrade the user. Start with the man page to xargs(1) as you are far
> > from the first to have this problem.
> >
> > Is well and good that there be some limit to how much data one can pack
> > on the command line and incoming arglist in an application's
> > environment else fumble fingers could cause major havoc. IIRC its
> > currently 10k bytes.
>
>
> Yes, in addition to for loops, I also know how to use xargs. I can use
> find. I can do all sorts of trickery.
>
> What I want to know is, how can I just use cp ?
Move a level upwards. If this fails:
$ cd ~/foo
$ mkdir ~/bar
$ cp * ~/bar
this has better chances of working as expected:
$ cd ~
$ cp -Rp foo bar
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