Hi,
I have a whole lot of ascii text files (> 5000) that I want to save
onto a cdrom via my iBook's cdrom. Any advice on how to do
this would be appreciated. The person to whom I am giving the
cd is not unix literate and wants all the files right there, e.g.
not bundled via tar.
Here are some cd rom related tricks that have worked on other machines...
bash-2.05a$ eject
bash: eject: command not found
bash-2.05a$ mount /cdrom
mount: /cdrom: unknown special file or file system.
bash-2.05a$
...alas, no dice here. Also, to give you an idea of how many
files I am talking about...
bash-2.05a$ ls 2003/* | wc -l
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
0
bash-2.05a$ cd 2003/
bash-2.05a$ ls | wc -l
5702
...any idea how to avoid that "Argument list too long"
error? I have been meaning to send a separate note about
that problem for weeks now....Recent hacks have
suggested that something like this might work...
for i in ls ; do cp $i <cd-rom-incantation> ; done
...but a non-hack solution would be greatly appreciated. My perl
is worse than my unix but I am v willing to try a perl soln but you'll
have to be pretty explicit about what I am to do.
Bill
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