Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:44:22 -0500 (EST) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp/mv/etc : argument list too long ... I am sick of this Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0512051842440.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <20051205231316.GA54068@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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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 ? You are suggesting above that the limitation is part of the users environment, and that I should upgrade the user. I dn't know what you mean by that. I am root. How do I upgrade the user(s environment ?) thanks.
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