Tanney, Austin wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>>I have a bit of a problem and I was wondering if anyone out there would be able to help.
>Basically, I wasn't to copy a whole bunch of files from a whole bunch of directories into
>one final directory. Essentially I have about 1000 folders, each of which contains 100
>files (50 each of two file types *.scf and *.ab1) which I am endeavouring to move to another
>folder. obviously using
>cp ./*/*.scf ./final_folder
>doesn't work as there are two many arguments. I've tried a variety of xargs commands
>too but have had no success so far. If anyone has any suggestions they would be very
>greatly appreciated.
>If you could reply to me off list that would be ideal as I often don't get time to go through
>the digests.
>Oh.. and before anyone says anything... apologies for the long disclaimer
>>>Austin
>>replying onlist so you don't get a lot of copied answers - try "cp ./
./final_folder -R" instead - it could be that the globbing is bringing
up too many arguments.
Kae
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