Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:48:21 -0300 (ADT) From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: copying many files at once Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712124603.14079A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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