/bin/cp: Argument list too long

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> Twra ayto pou me apasxolei einai giati otan paw na antigrapsw enan fakelo me 
> ~12000 arxeia mesa, pairnw thn ekshs apanthsh:
> 
> [alex at localhost ~/Mail2/.Linux.directory/Hellug/cur]$ cp * 
> /home/alex/Mail/HELLUG/cur/
> bash: /bin/cp: Argument list too long
> 

 find ~/Mail2/.Linux.directory/Hellug/cur -exec cp {} kapou_allou/ \;

 for i in `find ~/Mail2/.Linux.directory/Hellug/cur`; do cp $i kokos/; done