/bin/cp: Argument list too long

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2002-10-29 10:25, Steve Stavropoulos <steve at math.upatras.gr> wrote:
> 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/ \;

Hmmm, aporia.  Sto FreeBSD to xargs pairnei ena option -J pou mporei
nna xrhsimopoih8ei gia na "metakinhsei" kapoios th 8esh twn xargs
arguments mesa sto command.  Gia paradeigma:

	# cd /var/spool/mqueue
	# mkdir ../oldq
	# find . -type f -name '[dq]f*' | xargs -J % mv % ../oldq

Opou to ../oldq tha einai panta to teleutaio argument sthn mv(1).
Kserei kaneis an paizei auto sthn xargs pou exoun ta pio gnosta Linux
distributions?

Giorgos.