[OT] Argument list too long

Andrew Millar andy-mail at priorityonline.net
Fri Aug 12 16:24:26 UTC 2005


Try copying them a few at a time; maybe try using:

cp -r /media/nethd/Sound/a* /media/Sound/
cp -r /media/nethd/Sound/b* /media/Sound/

and so on.

That should break the argument list down and allow you to copy it

- Andy


Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:

> Hello All
>
> I try to copy my mp3's (108GB) from a nethd to the local hd on my box. 
> Nautilus just stops copy after some times (no message, just stops). So 
> I tried it on the command line with cp and got:
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ cp -r /media/nethd/Sound/* /media/Sound/
> bash: /bin/cp: Argument list too long
>
> So, I tried rsync:
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ rsync -rvtn --modify-window=1 --exclude "lost+found" 
> /media/nethd/Sound/* /media/Sound
> bash: /usr/bin/rsync: Argument list too long
>
> Any help?
>
> Regards, Thomas
>

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