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The reason this occurs is because bash actually expands the asterisk to every matching file, producing a very long command line. There are some workarounds for cp, mv, rm by find, xargs, and etc. |
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mv
Below commands enables you to copy files to $target_dir with no restriction
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find . -name "*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r |
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find . -name "*" -delete |