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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: doscp problem
Summary: wildcards don't work with doscp, here's a script
Message-ID: <5696@holston.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 90 19:46:47 GMT
References: <459@memqa.uucp>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk & Co.
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In article <459@memqa.uucp>, qexal31@memqa.uucp writes:
> 
> Here is my problem, I am running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 with 60 megs for Xenix and 
> 20 megs for DOS. While under Xenix I am trying to copy several (144) files 
> from the DOS partition using doscp. Here is the command I use:
>              doscp c:clips/exe/*.* *.*

Yes, wildcards don't work with doscp :-(. However you can use
a shell construct like: 

		for i in `dosls c:clips/exe`
		do
		doscp c:clips/exe/$i .
		done

This would copy everything in clips/exe to your current dir.
Sure beats typing. Hope this helps.
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