What alternatives do we have for basic shell commands on Windows?
Rumors are out that later this year, Windows will support bash.. and perhaps
then Livecode's shell calls to unix/bash commands will be cross platform--
like the one (cp) in this script below. But until then, can anyone provide an
alternative that works on Windows?
RevCopyFile (which works on Windows) doesn't offer the option to copy to a
different filename…
I suppose I can copy the file and then rename the copy at the new destination,
using "rename" which is simple enough.
But I was wondering if there are any native windows alternatives to unix "cp"
that writes the same file to another file with a different name in "one go."
on backupStack
save the topstack
# get a time stamp
put the internet date into tDateTime
convert tDateTime to dateitems
delete the last item of tDateTime
if item 4 of tDateTime > 12 then
subtract 12 from item 4 of tDateTime
put "pm" into the last item of tDateTime
end if
replace comma with "-" in tDateTime
# get the path of the stack
# set up the copy
put the effective filename of the topstack into tCurrentPath
put tCurrentPath into tCopyPath
set the itemdel to "/"
# always back up to one level above current working folder
delete item -4 to -2 of tCopyPath
put "/zArchives" after item -2 of tCopyPath
# put tCopyPath; exit to top;
replace ".livecode" with ("_" & tDateTime & ".bac") in tCopyPath
put ("cp " & quote & tCurrentPath & quote &" "& quote & tCopyPath & quote) into
tShell
get shell(tShell)
# auto fire every half hour
send backupStack to me in 1800 seconds
end backupStack
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