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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wild-card for DOSREAD and DOSWRITE?
Message-ID: <6623@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 18:28:22 GMT
References: <26500003@silver>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <26500003@silver> saini@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>I wanted to know whether there was a way to use (or simulate)
>wild-card in DOSREAD and DOSWRITE.  It becomes a pain to copy all the
>files individually to minix from DOS.
>
>Iqbal

How 'bout something like:

	for n in `ls *`
	do
	doswrite 1 $n <$n
	done

This copies all the files in the current directory to DOS files on the 
B: drive.

To copy from a DOS floppy into Minix, you need to somehow generate a 
list of the filenames to copy.  Then the actual copy can be done with:

	for n in `cat copylist`
	do
	dosread 1 $n >$n
	done

Anybody else have a better method?

Paul
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