Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
Message-ID: <6967@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 89 15:58:08 GMT
References: <16087@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <16087@louie.udel.EDU> C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN) writes:
>Lately I have been trying to reorganize a large portion of the files
>on my floppy disks.  In doing so I have found that a AmigaDOS is missing
>a command.  The command could be called MOVE.  I feel that it should
>work as the following.
>
>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:
>

well, as long as its on the same volume you can do it with an alias...
  (using the 1.3 commands and shell)
   
   alias mv execute s:dpat rename []


then typing

mv X df1:

will move X up a level.  This alias also lets you use wildcards
with rename, btw, ie

mv df1:#?.asm df1:hddisk

which would move all the .asm files you have in the root of df1: into
a subdirectory called hddisk.


>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 one is a little more complicated...its trivial to make
a script to do both the copy and the delete.  Checking to
see if device 1 is the same as device 2 is non-trivial in a script,
you were to write a command specifically for this purpose.
Here's the trivial one...  :-)  If you put it in the S: directory
and set the script bit you'll be able to use it like any other command.

.key source/a,dest
.bra {
.ket }
copy "{source}" to "{dest}"
delete "{source}"
; MOVE command


			andy
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