how do i use dsmove with piped results

i am trying to use the dsquery command line tool to identify inactive computer accounts of 8 weeks and then dsmove them by piping the results.

The command is:
dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 ou=mlp,ou="computer accounts",dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org | dsmove -newparent ou="inactive computers",ou=mlp,ou="computer accounts",dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd

The error returned is:
dsmove failed:`CN=sporaticcomputernames,OU=MLP,OU=computer accounts,DC=aaa,DC=bbb,DC=ccc,
DC=org' is an unknown parameter.
type dsmove /? for help.

Microsoft Legacy OSMicrosoft Server OSWindows Server 2003

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mlptechsupport

8/22/2022 - Mon

Farhan Kazi

7/17/2008

This may be due to incorrect OU DN format.
It should be like:

dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 1000 "ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa, dc=bbb,dc=ccc, dc=org" |dsmove -newparent "ou=inactive computers,ou=mlp,ou=computer accounts,dc=aaa,dc=bbb,dc=ccc,dc=org" -u domain\userid -p Mypassw0rd

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7/18/2008

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It worked beautiffully! Thank you!
I did however get an Out of Memory Error and explorer closed. The script finished and move the objects, but I had to manually run an explorer task.

Your help has saved me hundreds of hours of internet surfing.

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