Hi! Thanks for clarifying this. I will try this out later. When the soccer has endded tonight. /A 30 jun 2014 kl. 17:53 skrev Tim Kilburn <[email protected]>:
> Hi Anders, > > You're not specific as to whether the copy is going between two computers or > simply between mounted volumes on the same computer. If on the same > computer, your command should work fine, as long as, like Jason mentioned, > you've either quoted out or back-slashed out the spaces. So... > > cp *.mp3 /volumes/my\ audio\ disk/ > > or... > > cp *.mp3 /volumes/'my audio disk''/ > > The back-slash tells the Terminal to not count the "space" after it as an > argument separator. Similarly, the double or single quotes will can be used > when arguments have a space so that everything in quotes is counted as a > single entity. > > If you meant between computers, then the others suggestions would work as > suggested. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:45 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> I'd thought this would work but maybe it doesn't. >> I have ssh into my mac from a linux box as root. >> Now i want to copy a bunch of mp3-s or move them from one disk to another >> with mv or cp. >> I tried: >> cp *.mp3 /volumes/my audio disk/ >> I got the following error. >> :sh: /bin/cp: argument list to long. >> Please help and i promise i will read the manpage for cp. >> /A >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
