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From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca>
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Subject: copying many files at once
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Hi.
This is a silly question, but in its sillyness I can't make it work!

[root@frodo www]# mv ../page* .
bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

There are about 50,000 files that begin with 'page' and I want to move 'em
all into the /var/spool/www directory from /var/spool

mv doesn't seem to like what the shell does to the '*' Any ideas?

-Mike


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