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linux shell argument list too long rsync or cp

BySumGuy 2015-07-312016-05-11

I needed to copy files generated by doxygen from one directory into another for a large opensource C++ project. Sadly there were too many files in the directory, so bash started complaining 🙁 cp and rsync died out with the error of argument list too long. initially I figured I could generate it all from…

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bash file listing with markup

BySumGuy 2012-02-162016-05-12

every now and again we need to take a bunch of file names from a folder and output then into a single file. sometimes with markup around them. Well there’s always ls. ls > test.txt this nets you the following in a file: 0.png 1.png blockcontent_h.png blockcontent_s.png blockcontent_v.png blockheader.png what if you want markup around…