[Coco] No easy rename on OS-9 ?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Yep, that's the one. It also works with Shellplus wildcards if you want to copy multiple files to a directory (well, as long as lengths of all of the filenames that you specify don't exceed Shellplus' internal buffer, which I think was around 2K?).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Monday 31 March 2014 12:24:05 L. Curtis Boyle did opine:
> 
>> I seem to recall that the 'CP' OS-9 command had a -l link option (as
>> well as the regular copy), that did just re-link, as you are
>> describing. It was a free download years back.
>> 
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>> 
> And you would be right.
> 
> {t2|08}/DD:cp -?          
> "cp" (ver. 01.01):  Copyright 1990  Jamie S. Wilmoth
> usage: cp [-clmdorpvq?] file1 file2
>       cp [-clmdorpvq?] files... directory
>    -c = copy file(s) [Default]
>    -l = link file(s) instead of copying
>    -m = move file(s)
>    -d = delete file(s)
>    -o or -r = overwrite without prompting
>    -p = prompt prior to Overwriting [Default]
>    -v = verbose mode
>    -q = quiet mode [Default]
>    -? = usage help message
> 
> When I can remember all that it can do, its actually a pretty good swiss 
> army knife. :)
> 
> Cheers, Gene
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