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Hi,

I need to move 1000s of files from one folder to another.
Actually there are 100K+ files.
Source dir : source1
Target dir : target1

Now if try cp or mv commands I am getting an error message : Argument List too long.

I tried to do it by the time the files are created in the source folder.

-rw-r--r-- 1 prod usr1 104 Dec 3 08:01 200912_011.txt

For example the above file we can see that files can be seggregated based on the timings - 08:01 > 1000 file
08:02 > 1000 file.
I can select the time from the ls -lrt command using awk '{print $8}'.

But not able to move files writing a command line. This is how I tried, any solution is welcome.

Thanks in advance.

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