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

[Brendan Bispham <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 October 2001 18:32, James Rich wrote:
> Yes, I know one isn't *required* to prompt.  But I didn't know that the
> keywords aren't required.  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
>

I think the self-documenting of QCL is exemplified in the fact that:

> cp file1 file2 file3 file4 outputfile

wont work in unix.... and it's not apparent why.

I guess you meant:
cat file1 file2 file3 file4 > outputfile

...but what happens if something goes wrong and you dont have authority to
file3? The actual error-recovery code has to be included, and this would make
the whole thing a lot harder... surely?