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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 ( [id://1014366]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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

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++

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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.
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