Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:58:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copy or listing problem Message-ID: <20040618145818.GA20561@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <40D2D095.1080702@broadpark.no> References: <1e3201c45522$c393f840$dc96eed5@maslak> <40D2D095.1080702@broadpark.no>
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On 2004-06-18 13:23, Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> wrote: > Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: > >Hello > >I use freebsd4.9 > >I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to > >another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; > >/bin/cp: Argument list too long. > You could do it with a shell script: > > [SOF] > #!/bin/sh > > for file in * > do > if [ -f "$file" ] > then > cp "$file" "$target_dir" #Define $target_dir yourself > fi > done > [EOF] Please note that this is very likely to fail at the expansion of `for file in *' in very much the same way as `cp *' fails. A better alternative is to start copying one level up or use xargs(1): find . -maxdepth 1 | xargs -J '@' cp -Rp '@' /destination/path or something similar. - Giorgos
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