cp & chown issue.

[telenor]

AOA,

I want to copy large amount of files aproximately more than 20,000 files from one dirctory to another, but it gives me error like:

#cd /opt/appserver/images
#cp * /opt/appserver02/public/images

Argument list is too long

Also abobe mention error appear again when i run:

#cd /opt/appserver/images
#chown root.root *

How can i copies & change owner.

[lambda]

Code: Select all

rsync --inplace -PHvza /opt/appserver/images/* /opt/appserver02/public/images/

[telenor]

AOA,

I dont want to use RSYNC, i need a script or something like commands just using xargs,find

[nomankhn]

Senior recommend rsync command, that he recommend it is fine, Why you don't want to use rsync. Do you want us to write script for you?

[telenor]

AOA,

If possible to write script for me, also combination of xargs (dont rsync) required.

[nomankhn]

how much you will pay for your homework?

[mfaisalkh]

Try this:

ls -l /opt/appserver/images | xargs -i cp -rpf /opt/appserver/images/{} /opt/appserver02/public/images/

[telenor]

Again i faced the same problem but now in archiving:

tar -cvf images-13122011.tar /opt/appserver02/public/images

Error is:
Argument list is too long