The POSIX shell solution might look something like this (note -- this is one
unwrapped statement):

cp $(find /ACCT/GRP -type f | sort | awk '/YO012311$/,/YO012320$/ { print }')
/NEWACCT/NEWGRP

IIRC, you don't need the sort on MPE.  But the find results on some Unixes
don't return files in sorted order, so my example uses sort in order to be
multi-platform.

This example assumes the list of files to be copied is non-huge.  A huge list
would overflow shell command buffers at some point.  There are alternative
approaches that would avoid this problem.

- Mark B.

Shahan, Ray wrote:
> Well, actually, what I need is  YO012311 thru YO012320 out of a set of files
> that start with the range YO011815 and end with the value YO012712, and are
> numbered serially, so the Y@ just won't do it (but my previous poor example
> is probably what led to your reply...thanks for the help, though).   :-)
>
> Ray Shahan
>
> "There is so much good in the worst of us,
> and so much bad in the best of us,
> that it behooves none of us
> to talk about the rest of us"
>                   --Robert Louis Stevenson?
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Barnes [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:41 AM
>>To:   'Shahan, Ray'; [log in to unmask]
>>Subject:      RE: [HP3000-L] MPEX COPY
>>
>>one way would be to be logged into the account where the files will be
>>copied into.
>>Then using MPEX say:
>>  copy [log in to unmask]@[log in to unmask]@.GRP.ACCT,=.=
>>
>>USING THE "=.=" will put the files into the group with the same name.
>>
>>You can't mix the wildcard variables between accounts, like in the example
>>you listed.  You were probably getting an error because you used
>>"@.grp.acct" as the copy 2 statement.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:33 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: [HP3000-L] MPEX COPY
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>        I'm trying to copy a subset of files from one acct to another, and
>>I
>>ain't having much luck in MPEX.  Assume a file set labeled a thru z, and I
>>want the files from that set that are labeled j thru m. (COPY j.GRP.ACCT
>>thru m.GRP.ACCT, @.GRP.MYACCT)...any ideas?
>>
>>FWIW, I can (and probably will) do a quickie QEDIT for this in a matter of
>>seconds, but I was just sure that somewhere back in the many cobwebs of my
>>mind (what's left of it, anyway), I recall that this could be done in
>>MPEX?
>>:-)
>>
>>As always, TIA to all.
>>
>>Ray Shahan
>>
>>"There is so much good in the worst of us,
>>and so much bad in the best of us,
>>that it behooves none of us
>>to talk about the rest of us"
>>                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?
>>
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