[net.micro.amiga] More stupid CLI tricks

hadeishi@husc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi) (10/30/86)

	About the pattern matching DELETE, etc. . .

	The syntax I mentioned in a previous posting (i.e.
"copy (firstfile|nextfile|anotherfile) destinationdirectory")
of course is not an optimal syntax; it would be better if the
syntax were fixed so such tricks were not necessary.  It is
not optimal because the whole directory has to be searched in order
to find the three files that match the pattern; the command doesn't
know that the pattern just specifies three files; it checks to see
if each file in the directory matches the pattern.  However, it is
still probably faster than typing COPY over and over, particularly for
medium-sized directories, and it is certainly a speed advantage for
people with big RAMdisks or people running script files off of the
disk (i.e., copying a subset of the c: directory to ram: would be
much faster with this method, as long as the pattern matcher doesn't
choke with too many (||||||||) alternatives.)

			-Mitsu