Unix cp argument list too long

Question

I am using AIX.

When I try to copy all the file in a folder to another folder with the following command:

cp ./00012524/*.PDF ./dummy01

The

Answer 1

You should be able use a for loop, e.g.

for f in $(ls ./00012524/*.pdf)
do
    cp $f ./dummy01
done

I have no way of testing this, but it should work in theory.