doscp(1)

NAME

doscp — copy to or from DOS files

SYNOPSIS

doscp [-fvu] file1 file2

doscp [-fvu] file1 [file2 ...] directory

DESCRIPTION

doscp is the DOS counterpart of cp (see cp(1)). doscp copies a DOS file to a DOS or HP-UX file, an HP-UX file to an HP-UX or DOS file, or HP-UX or DOS files to an HP-UX or DOS directory. The last name in the argument list is the destination file or directory.

A DOS file name is recognized by the presence of an embedded colon (:) delimiter; see dosif(4) for DOS file naming conventions.

Metacharacters *, ?, and [ ... ] can be used when specifying both HP-UX and DOS file names. These must be quoted when specifying a DOS file name, because file name expansion must be performed by the DOS utilities, not by the shell. DOS utilities expand file names as described in regexp(5) under PATTERN MATCHING NOTATION.

The file name - (dash) is interpreted to mean standard input or standard output depending upon its position in the argument list.

Options

doscp recognizes the following options:

-f: Unconditionally write over an existing file. In the absence of this option, doscp asks permission to overwrite an existing HP-UX file.
-v: Verbose mode. doscp prints the source name.
-u: Disable argument case conversion. In the absence of this option, all DOS file names are converted to upper case.

RETURN VALUE

doscp returns 0 if all files are copied successfully. Otherwise, it prints a message to standard error and returns with a non-zero value.

EXAMPLES

Copy the files in the HP-UX directory abc to the DOS volume stored as HP-UX file hard_disk:

doscp abc/* hard_disk: 

Copy DOS file /backup/log through the HP-UX special file /dev/rfd9127 to HP-UX file logcopy located in the current directory:

doscp /dev/rfd9127:/backup/log  logcopy 

Copy DOS file zulu on the volume stored as HP-UX file bb to standard output:

doscp bb:zulu - 

Copy all files in directory /dameron with extension txt in the DOS volume /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 to the HP-UX directory abacus located in the current directory:

doscp '/dev/rdsk/c1t2d0:/dameron/*.txt' abacus 

WARNINGS

doscp works more reliably if you use a raw device special file (/dev/rdsk/) than a block device special file.

To use SCSI floppy disk devices, the sflop device driver must be configured into the kernel. (You can use the ioscan command to verify the configuration.)

doscp(1)

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