[OT] Argument list too long

[Michael R Head]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:18 +0200, 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?

In addition to the other solutions presented, why not just do this?

cp -r /media/methd/Sound/ /media/ ?

or

rsync  -r /media/nethd/Sound/ /media/Sound/ ?

> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
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