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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
Message-ID: <9873@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 13:30:37 GMT
References: <16087@louie.udel.EDU>
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In article <16087@louie.udel.EDU> C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN) writes:
>I have a file X in DF1:Mydir1 and I want to move it to DF1:. I would like
>to be able to issue a command something like
>     MOVE  DF1:Mydir1/x DF1:
>and the following should happen.
>   - A copy of file X is placed in the root directory
>   - the original file in DF1:Mydir should be deleted.

Right now you could just RENAME it ... but ...

>However you would have to touch the data if the command is extended to take
>on the form of
>     MOVE Device1:dir1/x Device2:dir

This command was posted a little while ago.  It is a mv/cp/rm all-in-one
program written by Edwin Hoogerbeets.  I use it and it seems to behave
fine.

It actually appears to behave much like the 3 unix commands of the same
name.  It uses rename for files on the same volume, so in you above
example, the file would not be touched, just moved.


I would recomend it ... it certainly made my life a little easier ...

Blair, ( I've almost got the shared 3D graphics lib going!!! )

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