>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tar will be available only if the user takes care to download and
> install it.
> And if they are smart enough to download and install texinfo *and* bash
> *and* tex, they will 99.9% surely have done so, long ago. And even if
> not, it will surely be trivial for them to do so, if they care -- tar is
> much simpler to install and deal with than texinfo and tex. I don't see
> this as an argument not to use tar.
Anyway, tar was convenient, and this idiom is quite well known, but I
don't care about using or not using tar. I just need
my_cp chap1/main.aux chap2/main.aux $work_bak
to do what I need. Feel free to send a shell script implementation.
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