Argument list too long

• August 14, 2008
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• Guides, Linux System Admin
• Posted by Gee

Argument list too long when copying/deleting/moving files on Linux If you do a lot of command line stuff in Linux, sooner or later you'll come across the "argument list too long" error when copying, moving, deleting, listing etc files in a directory that contains a lot of files. This post looks at ...

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