If it's too many arguments with globbing, how do you expect backticks to help cram them into one argument list? That's not going to work!
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Originally Posted by edfair
The list generated is limited in size. Try breaking your request down to the size it can handle like:
rm a*.txt
rm b*.txt
and so forth. If one of the sub groups is too large you will need to break it down further.
I think the limit is 256 but it has been a while since I tried to difine it.
This is not an effective or general-purpose solution, especially since the size of a commandline may be limited by the size of the names and not just their number. The proper way to deal with it is to use pipes or tools, not to keep randomly trying different globs until you find one small enough.
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,
I am trying to perform this task:
tar -cvf tar.newfile ??????.bas
I got error "arg list too long". Is ther any way around? I have about 1500 file need to be tar together.
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I have a directory (and many sub dirs beneath) on AIX system, containing thousands of file. I'm looking to get a list of all directory containing "*.pdf" file.
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I will be very grateful if someone can help me with bash shell script that does the following:
I have a list of filenames:
A01_155716
A05_155780
A07_155812
A09_155844
A11_155876
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Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to TAR more than 50K files.
Even though I can do TAR successfully on few 100s of files, but whenever Im trying to TAR the entire 50K files, I am getting the error message :
Argument List Too Long.
Please suggest how can i avoid this error.
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Hi,
I wanted a script to find sum of files for a particular date, below is my script
ls -lrt *.req | nawk '$6 == "Aug"' | nawk '$7 == "1"'| awk '{sum = sum + $5} END {print sum}'
However, i get the error below
/usr/bin/ls: arg list too long
How do i fix that.
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I have a script that needs to read a file with a long list of /path/filenames - replace the name of the server in each file - and write the file to the same path with a date extension. This is the script that I have so far
#!/bin/ksh
umask 022
LIST=`scripts.list`
for i in $LIST
do
... (2 Replies)
I am very new to BASH and I am having difficulties moving a long list of image files into similarly named directories. I've been trying to come with a script all night and no luck. Here is what my list of files looks like:
DSC_0059_01.jpg
DSC_0059_02.jpg
DSC_0059_03.jpg
DSC_0059_04.jpg... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a folder with a massive amount of files, and I want to copy out a specific subset of the files to a new directory. I would like to use a text file with the filenames listed, but can't get it to work.
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Hi all,
i have a folder, with tons of files containing as following,
on /my/folder/jobs/
some_name_2016-01-17-22-38-58_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-40-30_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-48-50_some name_0_0.zip.done
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gensprep(8) ICU 50.1.2 Manual gensprep(8)NAME
gensprep - compile StringPrep data from files filtered by filterRFC3454.pl
SYNOPSIS
gensprep [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -c, --copyright ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d, --destdir destination ]
DESCRIPTION
gensprep reads filtered RFC 3454 files and compiles their information into a binary form. The resulting file, <name>.icu, can then be read
directly by ICU, or used by pkgdata(8) for incorporation into a larger archive or library.
The files read by gensprep are described in the FILES section.
OPTIONS -h, -?, --help
Print help about usage and exit.
-v, --verbose
Display extra informative messages during execution.
-c, --copyright
Include a copyright notice into the binary data.
-s, --sourcedir source
Set the source directory to source. The default source directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.
-d, --destdir destination
Set the destination directory to destination. The default destination directory is specified by the environment variable ICU_DATA.
ENVIRONMENT
ICU_DATA Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to /usr/share/icu/50.1.2/. Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the
trailing slash. It is thus important to make sure that it is present if ICU_DATA is set.
FILES
The following files are read by gensprep and are looked for in the source /misc for rfc3454_*.txt files and in source /unidata for Normal-
izationCorrections.txt.
rfc3453_A_1.txt Contains the list of unassigned codepoints in Unicode version 3.2.0....
rfc3454_B_1.txt Contains the list of code points that are commonly mapped to nothing....
rfc3454_B_2.txt Contains the list of mappings for casefolding of code points when Normalization form NFKC is specified....
rfc3454_C_X.txt Contains the list of code points that are prohibited for IDNA.
NormalizationCorrections.txt
Contains the list of code points whose normalization has changed since Unicode Version 3.2.0.
VERSION
50.1.2
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