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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unexpected Argument list too long error on later os level Post 302989021 by say170 on Friday 6th of January 2017 10:42:33 AM
Old 01-06-2017
Unexpected Argument list too long error on later os level
I have a script on RedHat which runs this:

Code:
ssh -q -t -i $HOME/.ssh/my_key server2 "find ~/toCopy/*data* | xargs sudo mv -f -t /home/files/"

I'm getting:
Code:
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 fine on :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
but fails on :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)

Any ideas, or is there a better command which overcomes this?
 

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