[Coco] wildcards

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat May 12 17:45:45 EDT 2007


On Saturday 12 May 2007, mike delyea wrote:
>I'm trying to do a wildcard copy with NitrOS-9 and I'm having some
>problems.  The error is "must specify output directory if more than 2
>files".  I'm trying to copy the CMDS directory to a disk I COBBLERed using
>":copy /d0/CMDS/* /d0/CMDS".  This is a single disk copy.

You probably will overflow the expansion buffer in the shell due to too many 
files.

I think dsave might be your friend there as it can write a script, that when 
run, will do it as a series of copys.

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