Re: parameter list too long
From: Sven Mascheck (cus.x.mascheck_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 11/13/03
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:27:51 +0100 (CET)
In comp.unix.shell, jp wrote:
> I am trying to copy over 30,000 XML files [...]
> This is too many bytes for the shell [...]
...no, for the kernel, <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/>.
> for filename in `ls`
> do
> if [ $filename = *.xml ]
> then
> echo "Doing cp to $filename"
> cp $filename /download
> fi
> done
Apart from find(1) mentioned in this thread,
for filename in *.xml
do
cp $filename /download
done
(Bourne shells only have the virtual memory limit here.)
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