Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!steve
From: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wild-card for DOSREAD and DOSWRITE?
Message-ID: <1328@basser.oz>
Date: 21 Jul 88 16:15:09 GMT
References: <26500003@silver>
Reply-To: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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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.
>

How about using dosdir to get a list of files, grep for the ones you want,
then use command substitution with the shell; ie

	dosread `dosdir ... | grep funky_stuff`

Of course, if the minix sh doesn't support command substitution, save the
output of the grep, use gres to convert it to a series of "dosread" commands,
then run that through the shell.

Lot's of fun - you could even make a shell script of it for future use.