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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying files automatically Post 302430791 by MrEddy on Friday 18th of June 2010 05:59:01 PM
Old 06-18-2010
Yea see that works the problem is I have no way to limit what find picks for files. The directory has 100,000 files with names like.

1276675022.1276721280

So the whole problem is avoiding the arguement list too long problem. When executing copies and moves. Currently I just have to guess and do things like

mv 12766* and hope that it isn't too many files with that name, if it is then I just expand out 1 more digit and try to get as many as I can. Eventually I get them all.

There are no subdirectories or files of other types its all purely log files and how many is entirely dependant on the box and they only get this way in a failed state. So the directory always has 10's of thousands of log files that I have to move.

If i'm able to do a mv command and combine that with head -1000 then that is the only automated way I can avoid arguement list too long problems. Least the only way i've come up with.

My manual system works but its incredibly sucky and time consuming. I have to just keep scrolling through history and slightly altering numbers dozens upon dozens of times.

Its Freebsd with bash BTW.
 

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Name
       uucompact, uumkspool, uurespool, uupoll - uucp utilities

Syntax
       uucompact -ssystem
       uumkspool system ...
       uurespool [ -t# ]
       uupoll system ...

Description
       All of the commands are located in

       The  command  compacts  uucp  system spool directories and associated subdirectories. If system is ALL, then all existing uucp system spool
       directories are compacted.  Otherwise, only the specified system spool directory is compacted.  If no system is	specified,  is	compacted.
       If  is stopped before it is finished, it can be restarted without reprocessing directories.  The command continues processing where it left
       off during it's previous instantiation.

       The command makes a per system spool directory and associated subdirectories for each of the specified systems.	For example, if system	is
       mk3 and if the local system name is penny, the following directories are created:
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3/C.
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3/X.
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3/D.
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3/D.penny
	       /usr/spool/uucp/sys/mk3/D.penny
       The  command  moves files from old spool directories to	new spool directories.	Because the structure of the spool directories has changed
       from older versions of it is necessary to respool old spooled files to new spool directories in at least two instances:

       o    When installing the current version of

       o    When creating a new system spool directory for each system.

       In the latter case, it is necessary to move files from to the new spool directories.  To ease this task, moves files that have been spooled
       in  one	of 4 formats and respools them under the new spooling structure.  The format is specified by the -t# option, where the number sign
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       o   Split spool - Contains the subdirectories

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Files
       Spool directory

       Logfile

See Also
       mail(1), uucp(1c), uux(1c)

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