[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[chrisq]

On 1/9/24 02:27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 18:25:07 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> It also has much more powerful pattern matching than DCL offers, which
>> is why I would like to see it on VMS.
> 
> But not as powerful as the “find” command. I find if I need to do more
> complex types of file-filtering, I don’t bother with globbing, I go
> straight to find.

In agreement there. Very useful for whole file system copies:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Copy Filesystem to Filesystem
#
cd $1
find . -print -depth | cpio -pdmuV $2

Chris