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Getting Past Bash Argument list too long
Right now I have a directory with about 750,000 odd files in it and any attempt to manipulate the files results in this:
root@ip-172-31-1-219:~/datastreamer/data# mv * /home/ubuntu/data/data
bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
My first challenge was to do this:
chown ubuntu:ubuntu *
And the fix for this one was actually easy:
chown ubuntu:ubuntu .
By omitting the *, the bash limits on argument list don't apply – this changes the current folder (.) and everything in it and it always works.
The second challenge was to move the files from /root/datastreamer/data to /home/ubuntu/data/data. Here's the solution after a bit of research:
find /root/datastreamer/data -name '*.json' -exec mv {} /home/ubuntu/data/data \;