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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the CLI
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Date: 7 May 91 21:45:13 GMT
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In article <MWM.91May7110230@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
}
}ARP can't reasonably support "*". It can only try, and fail. You see,
}AmigaDOS uses "*" to mean "the window the is typing in". The third
}time I typed "copy * filename" to cram text into a file, and then had
}to watch the ARP copy move every file in my current directory into
}filename, I deinstalled arp.
So then ARP is reasonably supporting * as it is used in most other major
OS's, to mean match any pattern. 
}
}   >Copy files [to] [file/dir]
}   >           ^^^^ why the f*** ?
}
}   example, "copy to destination from source".
}
}For utilities that generate command lines, this is what makes the
}multi-source-file version copy work reasonably.
}
}For instance, on unix, to move all the .c files out of a directory
}requires exec'ing one cp per file, even though cp takes multiple
}arguments. You do:
}
}	find . -name '*.c' -exec cp '{}' dest \;
}
Someone has missinformed you about this:
My man page says:
Usage: cp [-ip] f1 f2; or: cp [-irp] f1 ... fn d2
which means you can do
cp ` find . -name '*.c' -print` dest


The basic wildcard notation of UNIX is pretty standard among
some other popular OS's. DOS and VMS treat * the same way as
does UNIX. It is not unreasonable to ask Amiga to do the same.
Bruce
}	<mike
}--
}That time we slept together				Mike Meyer
}That's as far as it went				mwm@pa.dec.com
}Yet though we're not quite lovers			decwrl!mwm
}You're more than a friend
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(that is underlineing the whole passage, not just the last line)
You obviously do not understand what sex is all about

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