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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Split a folder with huge number of files in n folders Post 302906661 by AlokKumbhare on Sunday 22nd of June 2014 05:08:05 PM
Old 06-22-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
What OS are you using?

Do any of the 350,000 files you're moving have names that contain any space, tab, or newline characters?
Hi Don,

I am on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. The files do not contain any special characters except _

Actually the format is something like

<xyz>_n1_n2_n3.pbx

where <xyz> is a prefix containing only alphabets [a-z A-Z]
n1 is a number less than 10
n2 is a number less than 1000
n3 is a number less than 10000
pbx is the extension

---------- Post updated at 04:08 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:06 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Aren't 350 000 files too many arguments for for i in *?
Safer and faster is
Code:
find . -type f |
while read i

Thanks.. Although I did not get an error for too many files with for I in *, find seems faster and as you mentioned safer if the number of files increase.
 

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