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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh script throwing arg list too long for mv cp wc - everything Post 302729157 by nyc68 on Friday 9th of November 2012 07:50:56 AM
Old 11-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bipinajith
Suggestion: Put all your string arguments for your commands in double quotes and retry
E.g:-
Code:
/usr/xpg4/bin/rm -f "${outtempfile}"


Quotes are not helping.
Same situation.

HTML Code:
Setting outtempfile name.
outtempfile=[/work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log_tmp]
/work/users/......../script_Sh[22]: /usr/xpg4/bin/rm: arg list too long
/work/users/......../script_Sh[25]: /usr/bin/which: arg list too long
move command :
[[[ mv /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log_tmp  ]]]
/work/users/......../script_Sh[30]: /usr/xpg4/bin/mv: arg list too long
[WARNING] mv command failed. Source file: [/work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log], Destination file: [/work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_
7309_20121109_055054.log_tmp]
Copying content from /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log to /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log_tmp
/work/users/......../script_Sh[37]: /usr/xpg4/bin/cp: arg list too long
[INFO] perform change dir
/work/users/......../log
/work/users/......../script_Sh[47]: /usr/xpg4/bin/basename: arg list too long
moving  to _tmp
/work/users/......../script_Sh[50]: /usr/xpg4/bin/mv: arg list too long
[ERROR] Failed to copy content from /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log to /work/users/......../log/VALIDFILELIST_7309_20121109_055054.log_tmp
 

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