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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-11-21, David Henderson <[email protected]> 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... > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this sexual > at intercourse yet?? Is > it, > gmail.com huh, is it?? > > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
