Can anyone explain?

Rick Messinger #4975 ram at wgivax.UUCP
Fri Jul 26 12:19:34 AEST 1985


  In this sh scipt is a sequence of two events.

> : Copy a file to a directory then chdir to the given dir
> case $# in
> 	2) cp $1 $2/$1 ; cd $2 ;;
> 	*) echo 'Usage: ccarry file dir/path' ;;
> esac

 Due to the design of the shell, it does not work (not in actuality anyway).
Does anyone out there know of a way this can be done.  I got word it could
be done in C?  I'll be interested to find out.
Thanks for any info.

 (ram)



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