Steffen Moeller wrote: > mv - arglist too long Note that the arglist limitation is a kernel limitation and not one in mv.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long What kernel are you running? > Package: coreutils > Version: 7.4-2ubuntu1 > Severity: wishlist Hmm... That isn't a Debian version of coreutils. But no matter. > instead of attempting "mv *.gz dest" one is asked to perform a "tar" > or the directory or to execute "find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.gz" > -exec mv {} inb/ \; " . You are forgetting about mv's --target-directory option. It makes things much easier and more efficient. > I don't like that so much. The semantics > were clearly expressed with the initial "mv *.gz dest" > invocation. Instead, in analogy to tar, there should be an > additional argument to mv that allows for the specification of a > regular expression: If you upgrade to a Linux kernel 2.6.23 or later such as 2.6.26 in Debian Lenny Stable then you should find that the kernel limitation is no longer present. I imagine that Ubuntu would be the same. > $ mv --wildcards "*.gz" "inb" Not really necessary. Plus that is an undesirable program bloat. > Please, please, please ... the high-performance computing world will > thank it you. Assuming that you are still running an older kernel can you please try to recreate the problem on a newer kernel? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
