On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:39:33AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > find . -atime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % /home/paulh/tmp/spam/sne/ > > xargs defaults to taking up to 5,000 arguments from it's stdin to > generate the mv commands (or up to ARG_MAX - 4096 = 61440 bytes), so > that would have done the job with only 8 or so invocations of mv.
Thanks for that. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
