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RE: Problem with cp (copy)
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Mr. Phillip Kimble |
Subject: |
RE: Problem with cp (copy) |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:26:19 -0600 |
David,
Thanks for the rapid reply & assistance. Here are the results;
BTW: I do dislike Windows & Outlook, but everything is setup for my wife
since I am gone much of the time.Format (MM.DD.YY for sanity sake,
otherwise, no problem).
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.01.01/* | wc -l 5935
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.02.01/* | wc -l 2919
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.03.01/* | wc -l 4219
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.04.01/* | wc -l 2710
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.05.01/* | wc -l 3632
As I stated earlier, everything works fine until I reach 05.*.01, Also,
something else I tried & it worked, I can do the following;
Cp -fa /home/ftp/tmp/2001/07.*.01/ /home/tmp/whatever/ -> Copies
directories & files
Change to the directory of /home/tmp/whatever/
Cp -fa ./07.*.01/* . Copies all files into parent directory.
This really has me going now. Not sure what the deal is. Also, There are
two different file systems as well.
/home/ftp/tmp resides on /dev/hda3
/home/tmp/ resides on /dev/ida/c0d0p5
I really don't see how any of this has something in common. Cp works
fine across file boundaries, the files are not uncommonly large, it can
copy directories&files, but not files with directories above 04 ???
Seems abit odd to me, and probably that has never been encountered
before, I tend to be an odd ball in all environments as well as Linux!
Phillip --
...and then Mr. Phillip Kimble said...
%
% Greetings,
Hello!
%
% I recently stumbled across a strange problem using cp which I do not %
understand. Here is the scenario; ... % Cp -far
/home/ftp/tmp/2001/01.*.01/* /home/user/admin/tmp/ %
% All worked well for 01, 02, 03, 04, (Jan, Feb, Mar, & Apr). Once I %
entered 05.*.01, I received the error, "Argument list is too long".
What do you get when you run
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.01.01/* | wc -l
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.02.01/* | wc -l
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.03.01/* | wc -l
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.04.01/* | wc -l
ls -1 /home/ftp/tmp/2002/01.05.01/* | wc -l
at your shell prompt? I suspect that there are lots of files in .05 but
not so many files in .01 - .04 dirs.
HTH & HAND
:-D
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Re: Problem with cp (copy), Alfred M. Szmidt, 2003/01/22