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.

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.

Note: Shell metacharacters (*, ?, and [ ... ]) can be used when specifying HP-UX file names, but cannot be used when specifying a DOS file name, because file name expansion is done by the shell and the DOS utilities do not recognize metacharacters.

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 -

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