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From:	Don Dwiggins <dond AT advancedmp DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?
Date:	23 Oct 2002 12:13:34 -0700
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Randall R Schulz writes:
> You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents" directory with
> this command:

> % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"

> Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this:

> % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"

As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to do
something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then you can
say things like "mv furniture /mydocs".
-- 

Don Dwiggins				"Solvitur Ambulando"
d DOT l DOT dwiggins AT computer DOT org



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