Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!csun!csuna!acphssrw From: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (News Manager) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: multiple file copy using arp copy, how? Message-ID: <1234@csuna.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 18:08:41 GMT References: <336@vedge.UUCP> Reply-To: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 16 In article <336@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes: >Is there an equivalent to the unix 'cp' > > cp file1 file2 f3 f4 x* dest_dir 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. Stephen Walton, representing myself swalton@solar.stanford.edu Cal State, Northridge rckg01m@calstate.BITNET