THOR's Shell Hacks

[pVC]

I run OS3.9 but mine did not come with any instruction manual.

Maybe there was one on the CD that I never looked at?

The last manual I studied came with my A4000 OS3.0.  If I forget something then that is the manual I autograb off the shelf.  I guess that is a pretty stupid thing to do in 2005+ since there must be a better AmigaDOS manual somewhere...

Doh, yes, there is online manual on the CD. I've copied it to HD to check it always when needed. It's basically structured the same way like the printed 3.0/3.1 manuals and splitted to few separate books. It's really handy to have it available all the time on your machine.

[pVC]

BTW. any idea how can I have parenthesis in destination name/path with Copy command? Using ' characters before parenthesis do work in source, but not in destination. At least in standard shell, haven't tried with Vinced...

For example:

Ram Disk:test> echo "bla" > test(1)
Ram Disk:test> dir
  test(1)
Ram Disk:test> copy test'(1') testfile
Ram Disk:test> dir
  test(1)                          testfile
Ram Disk:test> copy testfile test(2)
Wildcard destination invalid.
Ram Disk:test> copy testfile test'(2')
Wildcard destination invalid.
Ram Disk:test> makedir testdir(1)
Ram Disk:test> dir
     testdir(1) (dir)
  test(1)                          testfile
Ram Disk:test> copy testfile testdir(1)/
Wildcard destination invalid.
Ram Disk:test> copy testfile testdir'(1')
Wildcard destination invalid.