Trying to tar specific files from a directory causes problems when the number of files is too large.
ls ~/logs | wc -l
5928
In the logs directory - I have 5928 files
If I want to include all files with today's date - I run the following command
tar cf ~/archive/LoadLogs_20060302.tar... (8 Replies)
Hi
I executed the code
for file in `ls pdb*.ent`
do
new_name=`echo $file | sed 's/^pdb//;s/.ent/.txt/'`
mv $file $new_name
done
Its giving error at ' ls pdb*.ent' argument list too long
i have around 150000 entries
please help
Thank you (6 Replies)
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.
Im... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my shell script. As a quick overview I need to change a template file 6561 times and copy the file into a new catalogue. Thanks to your forum I have managed to write a script to do so:
#!/bin/sh
template=$1
for values in {45,165,285}\ {45,165,285}\... (6 Replies)
I have a huge set of files (with extension .common) in my directory around 2 million. When I run this script on my Linux with BASH, I get /bin/awk: Argument list too long
awk -F'\t' '
NR == FNR { a=NR }
NR != FNR {
sub(".common", "", FILENAME)
print a, FILENAME, $1
}
'... (1 Reply)
Dear Experts,
I have a list of 10K files in a directory. I am not able to execute any commands lile ls -lrt, awk, sed, mv, etc........
I wanna execute below command and get the output. How can I achieve it?? Pls help.
root# awk -F'|' '$1 == 1' file_20120710* | wc -l
/bin/awk: Argument list... (2 Replies)
Hi I am using find command --
find "directory1" -type f | xargs -i mv {} "directory2"
to avoid above argument list too long problem.
But, issue i am facing is directory1 is having subdirectories due to this i am facing directory traversal problem as i dont want to traverse subdirectories... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I am using GNU sed (named gsed under macports) in OSX. I have a directory with a series of files named pool_01.jpg through pool_78802.jpg. I am trying to use this command to rename the files to their checksum + extension.
md5sum * | gsed -e 's/\(*\) \(.*\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'
... (3 Replies)
Hi Team,
Here's the situation.
I have approximately 300000 to 500000 jpg files in /appl/abcd/work_dir
mv /appl/abcd/work_dir /appl/abcd/process_dir
The above move command will work if the jpg files count is close to 50000 (not sure). If the count is less this mv command holds good. But if... (14 Replies)
I have a script on RedHat which runs this:
ssh -q -t -i $HOME/.ssh/my_key server2 "find ~/toCopy/*data* | xargs sudo mv -f -t /home/files/"
I'm getting:
sudo: unable to execute /bin/mv: Argument list too long
but the reason I use xargs is to avoid this restriction.
It used to work... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: say170
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
receive
RECEIVE(1) General Commands Manual RECEIVE(1)NAME
receive - receive files from the sendfile spool
SYNOPSIS
receive [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] [ -ffrom ] file [...]
receive -n [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] file-number [...]
receive [ -s ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -R ] [ -ffrom ]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] file [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] -n file-number [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] -a
DESCRIPTION
receive files from the sendfile spool which has been sent to you.
If there is already a file with the same name you will be prompted for overwriting or renaming.
Allowed wildcards in file names are: * ? [abc] [^abc]
CAUTION: you have to put wildcards and other special characters in '' quotes to hide them for interpretation by your shell.
OPTIONS -n receive file number(s)
-d delete instead of receive
-a receive (or delete or bounce) all files
-r rename before receiving
-k keep files in spool after receiving
-P pipe files to stdout
-S receive only pgp-signed files
-s list files in short format
-l list files
-L list files and look inside archives, too
-R renumber files in spool
-b bounce (forward) files to another recipient
-q quiet mode: no questions asked
-fuser all actions refer only to files from this user
-Z spool
specify an alternate spool directory
EXAMPLES
receive -L
list all files in long format.
receive 'blubb*'
receive all files starting with string "blubb".
receive -daf microsoft.com
delete all files from microsoft.com sites.
receive -b framstag@bofh '*.jpg'
bounce all *.jpg-files to framstag@bofh.
FILES
/var/spool/sendfile The sendfile spool directory.
/var/spool/sendfile/$USER/log
A log of the last transfers.
/etc/sendfile.deny Users which are not allowed to receive files or messages (set by root).
SEE ALSO sendfile(1).
AUTHOR
Ulli Horlacher - framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
3rd Berkeley DistributionRECEIVE(1)