From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 15:53:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27055 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA01463; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:53:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:53:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Thomas Dean cc: miker@scifair.acadiau.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying many files at once In-Reply-To: <199807121654.JAA11365@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Seems like alot of work. Just tar it up, and pipe it back to tar and into the destination. On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Thomas Dean wrote: > 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 > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message