Hey guys. I have a program written in which i am trying to get the files from one remote machine and transferring the files to another remote machine using SCP.
It works fine for 50 or 60 files but when the files grows to 250 then i get an error message stating "Arg list too long".
Let me know if you would like to see the full code. I know i can accomplish the same task using FTP but was wondering if theres a way to do it through SCP.
I do ls -l ABC*, I get arg list too long message. This will not happen if ABC* has small no of files I believe 4000 files is limit. Any way of avoiding this.
I even tried like this
for i in `ls -l ABC*`
do
echo $i
done
Same problem.
Any solution would be great.
I am on HP-UX... (5 Replies)
hi everyone,
We have a heck of a lot of files in a particular directory and I need to search through all of them to find a list of all files containing particular text strings...one being a date and the other being the name of the report that is printed on the files.....
I've tried the... (6 Replies)
Hi all
I have more than 1000 files in a folder and when ever i use a "compress" or "zcat" command it give error
/bin/zcat: Arg list too long. .
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echo dirname/filename* | xargs ls -t
As a substitute doesn't give the results desired when I exceed the buffer size. I still want the files listed in chronological order, unfortunately xargs releases the names piecemeal...does anyone have any ideas? :( (4 Replies)
I get this error :
execvp:ar:Arg list too long
when i am trying to link the .obj files created on unix box.
Any resolution to this?
Thanks
Mohit (1 Reply)
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... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Help. I have a file that contains a list of users in a file. I want to cat the content of the file and feed it into sed to a preformated report. The error I got is "ksh: /usr/bin/sed: arg list too long" My method below.
A=`cat FILE1.txt`
B=`echo $A`
sed "s#USERLIST#$B#" FILE2 >... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to search through 30,000 files in 1 directory, and am getting the "arg list too long" error. I've searched this forum and have been playing around with xargs and can't get that to work either. I'm using ksh on Solaris.
Here's my original code:
nawk "/Nov 21/{_=2}_&&_--"... (14 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to find a file name with .sh exention from a list of .dat files inside a directory.
find /app/folder1/* -name '*.dat'| xargs grep '.sh'
ksh: /usr/local/bin/find: arg list too long
Please help me finding the command.
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tkhan9
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scp
SCP(1) BSD General Commands Manual SCP(1)NAME
scp -- secure copy (remote file copy program)
SYNOPSIS
scp [-pqrvBC46] [-F ssh_config] [-S program] [-P port] [-c cipher] [-i identity_file] [-o ssh_option] [[user@]host1:]file1 [...]
[[user@]host2:]file2
DESCRIPTION
scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh(1) for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same secu-
rity as ssh(1). Unlike rcp(1), scp will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for authentication.
Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that the file is to be copied to/from that host. Copies between two
remote hosts are permitted.
The options are as follows:
-c cipher
Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer. This option is directly passed to ssh(1).
-i identity_file
Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA authentication is read. This option is directly passed to ssh(1).
-p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.
-r Recursively copy entire directories.
-v Verbose mode. Causes scp and ssh(1) to print debugging messages about their progress. This is helpful in debugging connection,
authentication, and configuration problems.
-B Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or passphrases).
-q Disables the progress meter.
-C Compression enable. Passes the -C flag to ssh(1) to enable compression.
-F ssh_config
Specifies an alternative per-user configuration file for ssh. This option is directly passed to ssh(1).
-P port
Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host. Note that this option is written with a capital 'P', because -p is already
reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in rcp(1).
-S program
Name of program to use for the encrypted connection. The program must understand ssh(1) options.
-o ssh_option
Can be used to pass options to ssh in the format used in ssh_config(5). This is useful for specifying options for which there is no
separate scp command-line flag. For example, forcing the use of protocol version 1 is specified using scp -oProtocol=1.
-4 Forces scp to use IPv4 addresses only.
-6 Forces scp to use IPv6 addresses only.
DIAGNOSTICS
scp exits with 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
AUTHORS
Timo Rinne <tri@iki.fi> and Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
HISTORY
scp is based on the rcp(1) program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of California.
SEE ALSO rcp(1), sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1), ssh_config(5), sshd(8)BSD September 25, 1999 BSD