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From: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of 4DOS questions
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Date: 21 Feb 91 15:57:48 GMT
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In article <1991Feb16.130142.1@linus.claremont.edu> dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
>Does anybody have a non-interactive version of the 4DOS select
>command? I would like to be able to get the equivalent of
>SELECT cmd (*.something)
><hit space on every name>

alias forall `for %f in (%2&) do %1 %f`

then you can say things like:

forall edit *.c *.pas


   Michael Schaap
   msschaa@cs.vu.nl