copy or listing problem

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:58:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-06-18 13:23, Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no> wrote:
> > Yavuz Ma?lak wrote:
> > >Hello
> > >I use freebsd4.9
> > >I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to 
> > >another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below;
> > >/bin/cp: Argument list too long.
> 
> > You could do it with a shell script:
> > 
> > [SOF]
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > for file in *
> > do
> > 	if [ -f "$file" ]
> > 	then
> > 		cp "$file" "$target_dir" #Define $target_dir yourself
> > 	fi
> > done
> > [EOF]
> 
> Please note that this is very likely to fail at the expansion of
> `for file in *' in very much the same way as `cp *' fails.
> 
> A better alternative is to start copying one level up or use xargs(1):
> 
>     find . -maxdepth 1 | xargs -J '@' cp -Rp '@' /destination/path
> 
> or something similar.

    # find . -depth -print0 | cpio -p0dmu /destination/path

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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