Argument list too long causes and Solutions

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Argument list too long The solution to this problem mainly uses two commands find and xargs.

Here to delete dusays Directory to com Suffix file as an example ：

find dusays/ -name "*.com" | xargs -i rm -f {}find dusays/ -name "*.com" -exec rm -f {} \;

Copy dusays Directory to com Suffix file to 7bu Catalog ：

find dusays/ -name  "*.com" | xargs -i cp {} 7bu/find dusays/ -name  "*.com" -exec cp {} 7bu/ \;

xargs A filter for passing parameters to other commands , It is also a tool for combining multiple commands . and -i The parameter will xargs The content of is assigned to {}.