Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!jack!elgar!ford From: ford@elgar.UUCP (Ford Prefect ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: multiple file copy using arp copy, how? Summary: Or AmigaDOS, for that matter? Message-ID: <172@elgar.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 02:16:46 GMT References: <336@vedge.UUCP> <1234@csuna.UUCP> Reply-To: ford@elgar.UUCP (Ford Prefect ) Organization: Omnicron Data Systems, Bonita, CA Lines: 34 In article <1234@csuna.UUCP> acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) writes: >AmigaDOS's wild cards are surprisingly powerful: > > copy x#?|file1|file2|f3|f4 to dest_dir > >Unfortunately, the ARP Copy won't do this: it only gets the first file. >The bug has been reported to the ARP people on BIX. Also, even the >AmigaDOS Copy appears only to handle the wild-carded argument x#? if >it is the first one in the list. I seem to remember running into another problem with filename-patterns the AmigaDOS copy command: It only copies files which match one of the first five patterns between the |'s. I built a script to copy the essential files from sys:c to ram:c, and tried to do it like this: mkdir ram:c copy c:list|dir|copy|run|info|execute|rename|delete|endcli ram:c assign c: ram:c But it only copied list, dir, copy, run, and info. It did not copy execute, rename, or any of the others that I listed. (I don't really remember which order I listed the commands in, I just remember that I had to split it into several copy commands of no more than five files each.) Does anyone know if this is a real bug? Perhaps my Amiga was under the influence of sunspots or something... :-) -=] Ford [=- "Once there were parking lots, (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) now it's a peaceful oasis. ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM This was a Pizza Hut, ...!sdcsvax!crash!kenobi!ford now it's all covered with daisies." -- Talking Heads