Argument list too long - Unix

Question

This scripts will sort the files by date then move the first 2500 files to another directory.
When I run below scripts, system prompt out Argument list too long msg. Any

Answer 1

A quick way to fix this would be to change to $FROM_DIRECTORY, so that you can refer the files using (shorter) relative paths.

cd $FROM_DIRECTORY && ls -tr MSCERC*.Z|head -2500 |xargs -i sh -c "mv {} $DESTINATION_DIRECTORY"

This is also not entirely fool-proof, if you have too many files that match.