Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:53:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> Cc: miker@scifair.acadiau.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying many files at once Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980714175233.13648L-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <199807121654.JAA11365@ix.netcom.com>
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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 >&.
>
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