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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
Summary: Second opinion
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Date: 7 Jun 89 20:31:32 GMT
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In article <8380.AA8380@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>In Message <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:
>
>  WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WROMG! WRONG!
>  The command already exists (has since before V1.0) and its called "RENAME".
>  For example:
>    RENAME  DF1:Mydir1/x DF1:
>  Will do exactly what you want.

Wromg, eh?  What *I* want is for rename to accept multiple files and a
directory to move them to.  And preferably have it parse AmigaDos wildcards,
though a good shell will do that.  Typically I have a whole directory of files
that I want moved, perhaps into a subdirectory of itself.  With current
commands, this requires N renames, or (since they both accept wild cards) a
copy and a delete.  Very frustrating for UNIXoids like me, used to the
behavior of mv.  Also, for a cross-device rename, it should do what you ask,
invoking copy and delete (or the equivalent functionality) automatically.
Again, like UNIX mv.

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier