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Hi All,

I am new to Forums, as i am struggling for one script i am launched here.

I need to move more than 60,000+ folders in 1,00,000 folders to another server. I have the list of folders which should be moved. can anybody help me in sharing with the script for the above requirement.

Regards,
Hima Kiran

Be more precise - all 60.000 in other 1.000.000 each or by some distributing mechanism or or or... we need more info. If move with wildcards is not sufficient cause of limited number of parameters/arguments, you might want to use some find/exec/mv line to do it.
If it is a distribution logic that can't be done by algorithm logics, you might want to do it manually but let us know please, what details you have.

Dear Zaxxon,

In my organization we are using Postfix as a mail server. I have be told to clean up old mail boxes with backup. There are more than 1,00,000 id's present in our server. now i have list of users (folders) name which first i have to take backup (copy to backup location) and delete the folders.

Regards,
Hima Kiran

Do they have all one backup location or different ones? If only one then you can try something like this:

Code:

while read LINE; do cp -rp $LINE /backup_destination; done < my_list.txt

For this to work you need to cd to the directory where all those ids/users/folders are since in your list are only ids and not absolute paths, I guess.

You might also make sure first, that you have enough room at the backup destination. When everything is copied with errors, you can use similar while/read loop to empty (rm -rf) the old folders.

If you have different destinations/target, then you might want to use $LINE in combination with the backup path.

Dear zaxxon,

Thanks, it worked for me. timely support.

Regards,
Hima Kiran