Re: qsh from cl -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: qsh from cl
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 13:37:05 -0500
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 12:00 PM, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Even simpler if you use the *BCAT function to both truncate
previous trailing blanks and add one blank at the same time.

chgvar &myqshcmd ('cp' *bcat &file *bcat &fileto)

Yeah, *BCAT was made for this. That is one thing that is uniquely
convenient in CL.

If we back up a step, simply using the CPY command (and not bothering
with QSH at all) is another option.

John Y.

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CPY vs qsh&cp Was: qsh from cl , Rob Berendt

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