Re^2: Finding and sorting files in massive file directory

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Re^3: Finding and sorting files in massive file directory by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Jan 21, 2013 at 01:04 UTC
If you put something like this in a while (there are files that start w/ `a`) loop, you should get around the issue of too many arguments. (Be sure to set `increment=1` before the loop). mkdir dir_a.$increment mv `ls a* \| head -n1000` dir_a.$increment/ let increment++ [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Finding and sorting files in massive file directory by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 21, 2013 at 02:04 UTC
The problem is you will get "too many arguments" from `ls a*` already. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Finding and sorting files in massive file directory by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 21, 2013 at 13:12 UTC
See the xargs command. It can help with breaking apart large command lines. `find . -type f -name b\* -depth -2 \| xargs $command_that_can_be_run_mu +ltiple_times` [download] Update: added example. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l]