Re: QSHELL commands (was: Stmf copy with add)

James:

On Mon, 15 October 2001, James Rich wrote:

>   Sticking with the "cat" example from before,
> how does one copy multiple files to a target file, creating the target
> file if it doesn't exist, concatenating the multiple files together in the
> target file, but removing any data already in the target file if it
> exists, all without using keywords?  So the same as the unix command:
>
> cp file1 file2 file3 file4 outputfile


If this were something I'd commonly want to do, I'd probably just create a 
command that would be run like:

 ÝÝ>  cp (file1 file2 file3 file4) outputfile

or even:

 ÝÝ>  cp (file1 file2 file3 file4 outputfile)

and even:

 ÝÝ>  cp file1 file2 file3 file4 outputfile

though there are some basic limits on how many files could be handled under 
such command structures.

Of course, it's not something I can imagine wanting to do more a couple times 
in my remaining career; so I doubt I'd create such a command. I just don't need 
to cat files together that often, though I might CPYF MBROPT(*ADD) from time to 
time.

Tom Liotta


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