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From: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: moving products to the root
Message-ID: <9764@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 89 05:52:56 GMT
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In <9317@louie.udel.EDU> Jerry Whiteman (jwhiteman@st-lousi-emh2.army.mil) said

>I have tried several variants and gyrations of the copy command and I
>cannot figure out how to copy the files and sub-directories of a 'product'
>from its directory on a Fish disk to another disk so the files and the
>sub-directories are copied to the root directory rather than to the same
>named directory at the root.  In otherwords how do I turn a 'product'

The slickest way I've found is to use arp's rename.  Assuming that the
directory is on the current disks just type 'rename product_directory/* *'
This will move all the files (and directories) in product_directory to the curr
ent directory (could be the root).  This trick will not work with Amigadog
rename because it doesn't accept wild cards.

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