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Moving Large Number Of Files

Hello,

[root@server base_files]# mv *.jpg *.gif *.png *.bmp /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
-bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

There are 10,000+ files in that directory it has to search through.

How do I resolve this?

Thanks.

Morcalavin

Try this

for i in *.jpg *.gif *png *.bmp;do mv ${i} /home/fp/public_html/image_files/${i};done

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Morcalavin

You might have to do below if . isn't in your path.

for i in *.jpg *.gif *png *.bmp;do mv ./${i} /home/fp/public_html/image_files/${i};done

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itsManoj

Or use four simple commands:

mv *.jpg /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv *.gif /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv *.png /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv *.bmp /home/fp/public_html/image_files/

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[root@server base_files]# for i in *.jpg *.gif *png *.bmp;do mv ${i} /home/fp/public_html/image_files/${i};done
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: cannot stat `*.bmp': No such file or directory
[root@server base_files]# for i in *.jpg *.gif *png *.bmp;do mv ${i} /home/fp/public_html/image_files/${i};done
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.
mv: cannot stat `*.bmp': No such file or directory
[root@server base_files]# mv *.jpg /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
[root@server base_files]# mv *.gif /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv: cannot stat `*.gif': No such file or directory
[root@server base_files]# mv *.png /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv: cannot stat `*.png': No such file or directory
[root@server base_files]# mv *.bmp /home/fp/public_html/image_files/
mv: cannot stat `*.bmp': No such file or directory

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Morcalavin

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