Phillip -- I've taken the liberty of bouncing your message to the mailing list. Don't just send to me; I hardly know anything :-)
...and then Mr. Phillip Kimble said... % % David, % % Thanks for the rapid reply & assistance. Here are the results; Happy to help! % % BTW: I do dislike Windows & Outlook, but everything is setup for my wife % since I am gone much of the time.Format (MM.DD.YY for sanity sake, % otherwise, no problem). Good enough. % % ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.01.01/* | wc -l 5935 % ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.02.01/* | wc -l 2919 % ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.03.01/* | wc -l 4219 % ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.04.01/* | wc -l 2710 % ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.05.01/* | wc -l 3632 % % As I stated earlier, everything works fine until I reach 05.*.01, Also, Interesting. Certainly not what I expected. % something else I tried & it worked, I can do the following; % % Cp -fa /home/ftp/tmp/2001/07.*.01/ /home/tmp/whatever/ -> Copies % directories & files OK... % % Change to the directory of /home/tmp/whatever/ % Cp -fa ./07.*.01/* . Copies all files into parent directory. OK. And do either of these work for 05? % % This really has me going now. Not sure what the deal is. Also, There are % two different file systems as well. % /home/ftp/tmp resides on /dev/hda3 % /home/tmp/ resides on /dev/ida/c0d0p5 % % I really don't see how any of this has something in common. Cp works Same here. % fine across file boundaries, the files are not uncommonly large, it can % copy directories&files, but not files with directories above 04 ??? I don't think it's "above 04"; I think there's something peculiar about the directory(ies) that have the problem. I just saw this recently but don't remember the specifics: when you get "argument list too long" it's actually a shell problem and not a problem with cp (or any other program). Perhaps someone else on the list can chime in. % Seems abit odd to me, and probably that has never been encountered % before, I tend to be an odd ball in all environments as well as Linux! *grin* Well, hang in there... There has to be an answer :-) My inclination would be to either get access to your system to poke around or replicate the setup here, since as a sysadmin I can often have a feel for what may be wrong but as a programmer or coreutils maintainer I'm hopeless :-) Others, however, are much more skilled in the latter arena. HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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