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Old 05-10-2006
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Unhappy arg list too long when mv files?

hello all
i need some help because i am a unix/linux dummy...i have the following:
DIR1> has 121437 files in it with varying dates going back to early April,
a sub dir DIR1/DIR2> has 55835 files in it
I need to move all files (T*.*) out of DIR1 into DIR2 that are older than today?
Ive been testing using
find DIR1/T*.* -mtime +30 -exec ls -1at {} \; just to get a list of all files older than 30 days but i keep getting arg list too long.
any thoughts would be greatly appreciated?
cheers
Jimmy
 

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