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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving extremely large number of files to destination Post 302299700 by kedar.mehta on Friday 20th of March 2009 11:40:04 PM
Old 03-21-2009
Lightbulb Moving extremely large number of files to destination

Hello Techies,

m here with a small issue. Have read out all the relavent threads on unix.com but it was not so good sol. for me.

It's a simple & known issue. I want to move lots of files to dest folder. Actually I want to pick up 1 year older files, but that is even taking lots of time..Later on I want to archive them all.


This command is taking forever - it moved lots of files but i was bored waiting for it to comlplete all transfer (gave it 8 hrs..still in progress !)

find ./ -type f -mtime +79 -print | xargs -n1 -i mv {} /dest/


Below command returns error-

find ./ * -print | xargs -n1 -i mv {} /dest

error: Arg list too long

File name has fix pattern, based on date.
Avarage file size - 3090.
total size of files -5247124 kb.

I need to transfer them .. I dont mind with time taken - but it should give me solution..

Any help please?
 

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fontimport(1)							       teTeX							     fontimport(1)

NAME
fontimport - import fonts into the teTeX directory structure SYNOPSIS
fontimport [-d] [-f] [-t] [-m MF-mode] path ... DESCRIPTION
fontimport imports TFM and PK font files into appropriate places in the teTeX directory tree and revises teTeX's filename database accord- ingly. Each path may be a font file or a directory, either absolute or relative to the current directory. All subdirectories of a given directory are searched for font files. Don't specify directory names that are symbolic links, however, since (at least some versions of) find(1) won't dereference them. A font's destination is determined by variables in the file texmf.cnf. By default, fontimport will issue a warning to stderr instead of overwriting an existing font file. The -f flag forces overwriting. fontimport can cope with font names conforming the 8.3-namescheme, too, so you can import fonts from either a TDS-compliant or MSDOS installation. emTeX's font libraries are not supported. If you want to import fonts from a font library, you need to unpack it with emTeX's fontlib utility first. The full pathname of each font successfully imported is echoed to stdout. When fontimport can not parse a font's name, it will import the font using a path element of "/unknown/" and issue a warning on stderr. fontimport tries to guess the mode of PK files. With the -m flag you may specify a fallback mode to be used if the mode can't be guessed. Options: -m MF-MODE default Metafont mode for PK files if autodetection fails -d delete delete font files after copying (i.e., move them) -f force overwrite existing fonts -t test just echo each font's destination (if any); don't move or copy SEE ALSO
allec(1), allneeded(1), fontexport(1), Fontname: Filenames for TeX Fonts (http://tug.org/fontname). AUTHOR
Thomas Esser (te@informatik.uni-hannover.de) teTeX 4/99 fontimport(1)
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