copying multiple files

[David Henderson]

Hey Grant, thanks for the reply!  Unfortunately that command will just
echo what you type to the screen, not actually copy anything.  Any
other thoughts?

Thanks,
Dave


On 11/21/16, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-11-21, David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
>> Good afternoon.  I have several files in two different directories
>> that I'm trying to copy in a destination using:
>>
>> cp -f /tmp/test/{a.txt,b.txt,c.txt} /tmp/test2/{1.txt,2.txt,3.txt}
>> /tmp/dest
>>
>> This keeps failing.  Is this implemented in BB?
>
> Try this:
>
>    $ busybox ash
>    ~ $ echo /tmp/test/{a.txt,b.txt,c.txt}
>    /tmp/test/{a.txt,b.txt,c.txt}
>
> It appears that the busybox shell does not implement bash/C shell
> alternation (aka "brace expansion").  None of the busybox builds I
> have on hand do anyway, and I don't see any options in the config file
> to enable such a feature...
>
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