limiting a find to 100 results 1

[bkdobs]

Is it possible to limit a find to 100 results?

find $srcpath -xdev -type f exec mv {} $dstpath \;

The issue is when too many files hit the srcpath a
mv $srcpath\*.* $dstpath
fails due to parameter list too large ... the dstpath processes will fail for the same reason if I execute the above find.

 

[reclspeak]

How about;

set -A move `find $srcpath -xdev -type f exec mv {} $dstpath \; x=0 ; while [ $x -lt 100 ] #(array starts @ 0)
do
echo ${move[$x]}
((x=$x+1))
done


recl

 

[reclspeak]

or rather;

set -A move `find $srcpath -xdev -type f exec mv {} $dstpath \; x=0 ; while [ $x -lt 100 ] #(array starts @ 0)
do
mv ${move[$x]}$dstpath
((x=$x+1))
done