Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:19:16 -0300 (ADT) From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> To: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> Cc: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying many files at once Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715221041.25232A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980714175233.13648L-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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Ugh.
I guess I forgot to mention that they are small files, but 60,000 of them
add up. There are about 4 gigs of files. I ended up piping ls through a
series of awk and grep to give myself a shell script that moved them over
in small enough chunks...
Someone mentioned xargs, a proggie I forgot about from my old linux days!
A little know solution. Now that I don't have a failing hard drive worth
of files to deal with...
-Mike
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Jeremy Shaffner wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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
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