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does that work for say 2143789 files?
by aw3c2 14y ago
does that work for say 2143789 files?
- klibertp 14y agoI actually hit a limit quite a few times already - I don't remember if it was the shell that complained or the command (mv, cp, ...) itself, but I know I couldn't execute the command. find with xargs or -exec worked, however.
- aw3c2 14y agoIt's what happens if one uses * or similar globbing. The shell will try to pass all the files as arguments to the command and if it is too many, it will fail. That is why using find is often needed.