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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: THings I would like to see in the CLI...
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.134035.4064@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 13:40:35 GMT
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In article <Walt.2640@orbit.Amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca> Walt@orbit.Amiga.OCUnix.On.Ca (Walt Sullivan) writes:
>>In article <4487@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) writes:
>>I don't know if this has been addressed before or if such a feature actually
>>exist (I don't own an Amiga so I haven't played around with CLI), but can you
>>have background tasks??  
>
>Yes.
>
>>
>>In Unix you could do a rm * & and then go on to do something else.  Can you do
>>something similiar in the CLI?  If you can, can it be done (it should I think),
>>if not why not?  
>
>arun delete * quiet
>
>works for me (I'm using ARP delete), standard AmigaDOS delete probably wants
>
>run delete #? quiet

  Better yet, instead of using Cli, get a shell and use aliases. Wshell
is one of the best, and Wshell supports Unix style &,| characters.

For instance:
alias rm  delete []
alias cp  copy [] clone