On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:58:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-06-18 13:23, Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yavuz Ma?lak wrote: > > >Hello > > >I use freebsd4.9 > > >I have thousands of files in my any directory. and I need to copy them to > > >another directory. but when I started to copy them I got error as below; > > >/bin/cp: Argument list too long. > > > You could do it with a shell script: > > > > [SOF] > > #!/bin/sh > > > > for file in * > > do > > if [ -f "$file" ] > > then > > cp "$file" "$target_dir" #Define $target_dir yourself > > fi > > done > > [EOF] > > Please note that this is very likely to fail at the expansion of > `for file in *' in very much the same way as `cp *' fails. > > A better alternative is to start copying one level up or use xargs(1): > > find . -maxdepth 1 | xargs -J '@' cp -Rp '@' /destination/path > > or something similar.
# find . -depth -print0 | cpio -p0dmu /destination/path
Cheers,
Matthew
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