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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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cp

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ls dir1 \| xargs -I {} cp {} dir2/

Add prefix as "nice -n10" as below if you do it in the server and want to keep working other process

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ls dir1 \| nice -n10 xargs -I {} cp {} dir2/

mv

Below commands enables you to copy files to $target_dir with no restriction

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