I don't know about the file number. You can find out yourself. I also don't know which limit of cp you are referring to but, if cp won't work, this likely will (bash): for i in "`dir -1 *`";do cp -a "$i" /newdirectory/"$i";done Joel On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:51:45PM +0800, Chang wrote: >
> 1. is it possible to have 50000 files in a directory? > 2. how to copy it given the limit of the cp command? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
