At 7/8/98 12:40 PM , Gavin Scott wrote:
<snip>
>Hmmm.  'mv *.html newhome/*.html' should not work either.  Something
>like 'mv *.html newhome' will though, since the destination is taken
>as the last parameter, and if it is a directory the files are put into
>that directory with their same names.
<snip>
>G.

Thanks Gavin, and yes, I goofed on the "mv *.html newhome/*.html".  When I did
an "fc -l 120 140" I received:

   ...
   124     cp *.html hold/
   125     ls -l hold/
   ...

Oops!

Thanks,

John
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