How do move large number of files ?
andrew clarke
mail at ozzmosis.com
Tue Apr 13 19:29:45 UTC 2010
On Tue 2010-04-13 14:09:29 UTC-0500, MirJafar Ali (mirjafarali at gmail.com) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have very huge number of files in one directory that I wish to move to
> some other folder and
> the standard* "mv" just screames
>
> crash-06:~/DataSet$ mv file** SFiles
> bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
>
> Can someone suggest what is may be a good solution.* of course picking one
> by one is ruled out.
>
> Mir
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060 has a few different
solutions to this problem.
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