I tried to move a bunch (>30,000) of files starting with the same prefix to a new directory:
mv color-*.png ../some-other-dir/
But I got the error:
-bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long
Instead, I used:
find . -name "color-*.png" -exec mv {} ../some-other-dir/ \;
Note that the {} will get replaced with the individual file names and the mv command is executed separately for each.