Windows Equivalents for Shell: cp (copy)

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 03:43:44 EDT 2016


or the url method
put url "binfile:path/to/in/file into url "binfile:path/to/out/file"

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:42 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 7/11/2016 10:18 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>
>> RevCopyFile (which works on Windows) doesn't offer the option to copy
>> to a different filename…
>>
>> I suppose I can copy the file and then rename the copy at the new
>> destination, using "rename"  which is simple enough.
>>
>
> This works:
>
>   put <thePlaceItShouldGo> into tCopyPath
>   put the effective filename of this stack into tCurrentPath
>   set the filename of this stack to tCopyPath
>   save this stack
>   set the filename of this stack to tCurrentPath
>   save this stack -- reset
>
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