[ubuntu-in] Strange problem with too many jpg files in one folder

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:47:47PM +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > further tweaking gets me here
> > # find /home/himal/ size +1000 -name image3*.jpg -exec mv '{}'
> > /home/himal/Pictures/recovered/bigger800kb/ \;
> > find: paths must precede expression: image301001.jpg
> > Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D
> > help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]
> >
> >
> 
> find /home/himal/ size +1000 -name 'image3*.jpg' -exec mv {}
> /home/himal/Pictures/recovered/bigger800kb/ \;
> 
> This should do the trick.
> 
> Don't use single quotes around the curly braces next to "mv" and make
> sure argument to "-name" to be in single quotes.
> 
I was testing this out, the problem is with find complaining about the
argument list (too large).

For testing I did this inside a folder
# for i in $seq(50000); do touch ${i}.jpg; done
then tried ls, mv etc. Worked like a charm, I have a hunch that there is
a limitation in ext3 (I'm using ext4).

> 
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> Abhishek Amberkar
> 
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