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This is a very clever work around the 'argument list too long' error. In my case, I have twenty thousand files, so I guess I would have to use a for loop from 0,..,20. Right?

Paul
– Paul

2012-04-26 14:18:06 +00:00
Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 14:18
@Paul Right, just break the list into as many chunks as you need, although at some point the find approach becomes easier than guess and check.

jw013
– jw013

2012-04-26 14:24:43 +00:00
Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 14:24
upvoted for the for solution. Somehow I could not get to figure out how to use find -regex to match my files and your solution works just fine!

Adrien
– Adrien

2021-11-02 14:13:50 +00:00
Commented Nov 2, 2021 at 14:13

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