/bin/cp: Argument list too long

[Fanis Dokianakis]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:29:15PM -0500, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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> Geia saaaas.
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> Ta katafera gia akoma mia fora na dialysw to systhma mou. More about that 
> later.
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> Twra ayto pou me apasxolei einai giati otan paw na antigrapsw enan fakelo me 
> ~12000 arxeia mesa, pairnw thn ekshs apanthsh:
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> [alex at localhost ~/Mail2/.Linux.directory/Hellug/cur]$ cp * 
> /home/alex/Mail/HELLUG/cur/
> bash: /bin/cp: Argument list too long
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> ...kai pws mporw na to kseperasw?
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> Eyxaristw
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Se aytes tis periptwseis kalyteo einai na koitas tn epilogh --help stis
entoles (dld to cp --help), h kalytera to "man help".

Vasika ayto pou thes einai to cp -R sourcedir/ destinationdir/
alla kalytera xreisimopoiese to cp -a sourcedir/ destinationdir/
epeidh me ayton ton tropo diathrounte h idiokthsia kai oi adeies.

Pio sygkekrimena gia na doulepsei ayto pou egrapses pano dyatypose to
san  "cp -a . /home/alex/Mail/HELLUG/cur/"

Fanis