Hi there,

I am trying to move around 3000 files from one directory to another. The mv command is complaining from too many arguments. I tried to use the xargs command but with no luck. Could some body provide help?

Regards

something to be improved on:
(cd $SOURCE && tar cf - . ) | (cd $TARGET && tar xvfp -)

Maybe this link will help:
xargs problem

You could also take a look at this. Just read the tar and cpio sections in your case.....

Cheers
ZB

I hope you dont have files greater than 2 gig size,in that case neither cpio nor tar works

If you want to copy the olddir directory hierarchy to newdir.

mkdir newdir
pax -rw olddir newdir