[Coco] wildcards

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat May 12 19:22:52 EDT 2007


On Saturday 12 May 2007, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Oh yes, my old friend DSAVE piped to shell.
>
>DSAVE /D0/CMDS D1/CMDS ! SHELL should do the trick.  I don't know how well
>it will work on a single disk system though.
>
It used to be able to prompt for disk changes way back when.

>Bruce W.
>
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