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Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
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Date: 9 Jun 89 14:26:45 GMT
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 09:52 PDT
From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
To: "eagle::amiga-relay%udel.edu"@KAHUNA.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM
In-Reply-To: Your message of 7 Jun 89 19:31 PDT
Message-ID: <19890608165239.7.KOSMA@BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
 
 
    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.
 
Do you have AmigaDOS 1.3?  If so, read the manual, and look at the
SPAT script in the s: directory--this can be used to pass a whole set of
wildcarded filenames to RENAME.
 
Do you have ARP 1.3?  ARP has a move command just like you described. I
was holding off on getting ARP 1.3 (since I thought for a (short) while
that AmigaDOS 1.3 was pretty good) but after downloading a program which
required the ARP library, I decided to go ahead and get the whole ARP
1.3 release and try it out.  Needless to say, I'm glad I did!
 
Now, when do you suppose that AmigaDOS is going to incorporate all the
excellent ideas and handiwork of "the ARP guys"?  :-)
 
Montgomery N. Kosma