78000 file names is a lot of text when taken together. ARG_MAX is the limit to the total size of the arguments in bytes given to a command, including all env variables (like PATH, etc.)
one way around the problem, if I get what you are doing with sed:
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)
I have a wrote a script which consits of the below line.. Below of this script I'm getting this error "ksh: /usr/bin/ls: arg list too long"
The line is
log_file_time=`ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa -q $i ls -lrt /bp/karthik/test/data/log/$abc*|tail -1|awk '{print $8}'`
And $abc alias is as "p |... (1 Reply)
Hi guys
Following command results in
sed -i 's/#/\\#/g' /home/test/sqlstents*
-bash: /bin/sed: Argument list too long
Please help me solve it.. is there any other way i can do this?.. thanks (4 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 having some trouble with the below command, can some one suggest me the better way to do it.
grep -l 'ReturnCode=1' `find $Log -newer /tmp/Failed.tmp -print | xargs ls -ld | egrep SUB | egrep -ve 'MTP' -ve 'ABC' -ve 'DEF' -ve 'JKL' -ve 'XYZ' | awk '{print $9}'` > $Home1
Its... (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,
This question has been asked many times, but my problem is slightly different.
In my shell script i am connecting to oracle database and loading the results to .dat file. This .dat file is later used to create to .xls file Some times the size of .dat file becomes more than 120000... (8 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)
Discussion started by: kmanivan82
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
env
env(1) User Commands env(1)NAME
env - set environment for command invocation
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/env [-i | -] [name=value]... [utility [arg... ]]
/usr/xpg4/bin/env [-i | -] [name=value]...
[utility [arg... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The env utility obtains the current environment, modifies it according to its arguments, then invokes the utility named by the utility op-
erand with the modified environment.
Optional arguments are passed to utility. If no utility operand is specified, the resulting environment is written to the standard output,
with one name=value pair per line.
/usr/bin
If env executes commands with arguments, it uses the default shell /usr/bin/sh (see sh(1)).
/usr/xpg4/bin
If env executes commands with arguments, it uses /usr/xpg4/bin/sh (see ksh(1)).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-i | - Ignores the environment that would otherwise be inherited from the current shell. Restricts the environment for utility to
that specified by the arguments.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
name=value Arguments of the form name=value modify the execution environment, and are placed into the inherited environment before
utility is invoked.
utility The name of the utility to be invoked. If utility names any of the special shell built-in utilities, the results are unde-
fined.
arg A string to pass as an argument for the invoked utility.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Invoking utilities with new PATH values
The following utility:
example% env -i PATH=/mybin mygrep xyz myfile
invokes the utility mygrep with a new PATH value as the only entry in its environment. In this case, PATH is used to locate mygrep, which
then must reside in /mybin.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of env: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
PATH Determine the location of the utility. If PATH is specified as a name=value operand to env, the value given shall be used in the
search for utility.
EXIT STATUS
If utility is invoked, the exit status of env is the exit status of utility. Otherwise, the env utility returns one of the following exit
values:
0 Successful completion.
1-125 An error occurred.
126 utility was found but could not be invoked.
127 utility could not be found.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
/usr/xpg4/bin
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWxcu4 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh(1), sh(1), exec(2), profile(4), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 2 Jan 2002 env(1)