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From: dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wild-card for DOSREAD and DOSWRITE?
Summary: Just use a loop in a shell script(!)
Message-ID: <448@cseg.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 88 20:13:48 GMT
References: <26500003@silver>
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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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

   One way that I did it was to just write a one line shell script which will
go through each of the desired files and read/write it to the DOS disk.  I
forget the syntax of the command right now, but it only took me 5 minutes or
so to look it up and create a one-liner.

                              - David Summers
                              dws@cseg.uucp
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