cp: Argument list too long

[Bill Jonas]

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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:53:20PM -0700, Michael Wittman wrote:
> Then run the command:
> find /mydir/myfiles -name \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 -n 2500 -s 10000 cp-f=
iles
=2E..
> Normally you don't need to create a separate script to use with xargs, but
> cp (and mv) have the peculiar property that the last argument is special.

No need to in this case, either:

find /mydir/myfiles -name \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp "{}" /newdir

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