Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: miker@scifair.acadiau.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying many files at once Message-ID: <199807121654.JAA11365@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712124603.14079A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca> (message from Michael Richards on Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:48:21 -0300 (ADT))
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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 >&.
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