knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (10/17/83)
I understand that, unlike UN*X, OS-9 does not allow file names to contain wild card chracters like ? for any one char or * for any number (incl zero) of any chars. Soooo, you can't type: dir *.c to locate all your C files on the current directory. Now--has any outfit like Frank Hogg or whatever come out with an add-on patch to add these valuable features to the shell? I realize that these functions are non-trivial to implement; in fact, the full UN*X regular expression search is MS in CS thesis-level algorithm. But anything would help.... mike k
sjt@sb6.UUCP (SIDNEY THOMPSON) (10/18/83)
You are correct about there not being any wild cards in OS9. There is one program (DSAVE) which will generate a file of the current and all lower directorys of the form: copy /dir/file file you then chd to the directory to which you wish to place the files and then execute the file generated by dsave. I have used this file and a good editor (ie not the OS9 edit) to globaly change the copy to del or anything else you may wish to do. All in all this is a real pain. Also you can't copy a file to a directory if the file name already exist without first deleting the original file as a seperate function. Sidney Thompson sb1!sb6!sjt 24-r-77 sbc Atlanta, Ga.