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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: arp CD command change???
Message-ID: <4129@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 19:45:09 GMT
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Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <10657@stb.UUCP>, michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
> In article <6001@cbmvax.UUCP> ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:
> > [comparison of what can and can not be done in amigados/unix]
> >
> >Here are some examples of things that just CAN'T be done with
> >AmigaDos wildcards:

[ examples deleted ]

Anyone who has problems with commands not supporting wildcards should
look at (or just USE) the SPAT or DPAT scripts that are now in the S:
directory for 1.3.  The syntax is:

	SPAT <command-name> <wildcard-pattern> <other option(s)>

	or

	DPAT <command-name> <wildcard-pattern> <directory> <other-option(s)>

These each run the named command once (in a script-directed loop) for each
time a filename matches the wildcard string that you provide.  Thus the
file itself need never support wildcarding because it gets run perhaps
many times, but each time receives only a vanilla (simple) file name.

I especially like the alias assigned for the RENAME command (forgot if they
used 're' or what, but essentially it lets you move a wildcard specified
set of files from one directory to another in a single command invocation.
Very nice.  Just like Unix's

	mv dir1/dir2/dir3/* newdir

The AmigaDOS equivalent uses DPAT... see the file S:Shell-startup for
details.

Rob Peck