The following tricks may be of interest to CLI/AmigaDos users.
1. First, you can move a file to another directory without performing
a copy then delete. Use the RENAME command and specify the pathname
as part of the destination string.
For example:
rename lottahelp newdir/lottahelp
Moves the file 'lottahelp' to another directory called 'newdir'.
You can even give the file a different name. BUT-BUT-BUT, you can
only move files from one device to another location ON THE SAME
DEVICE. You cannot move a file from RAM: to DF1:, etc.
2. It is possible to set the system date/time by redirecting
the stdin. But, you have to fool DATE by doing the following.
DATE <newinfile [>nil:] ?
The [] parameter is optional (do not included the '[' ']'
symbols). It will redirect the output of the DATE command to
the nil: device.
The '?' is used to fool the date command into using
'newinfile' as the input for DATE.
3. You can copy more than one file at a time to a destination
directory by specifying a wildcard of the files to move,
separated by the vertical bar character:
copy file1|file2|file3|file4 ram:
This makes a wildcard that only matches the filenames specified,
so the copy proceeds as normal.
