R: send multiple commands to Windows' cmd

Question

I think and hope this is super easy, but I am jsut too stupid/blind:

I want to use system and not only open the command-line of windows, but to perform a simple copy task within it:

system('cmd' , 'copy Frame_Ind* all.dat')

So I thought... I want to copy alle files which start with "Frame_Ind" together into one that is calles "all.dat".

Can you tell me how to prompt more than one command with system?

I know this is a weird workaround, but it would help me a lot! Thanks and Cheers, Al

I'm not entirely sure what you want but to run multiple commands on the the cmd line from R you could: write a .bat file and tell that to run from within R, make multiple system() calls or use the syntax from here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8055371/how-to-run-two-commands-in-one-line-in-windows-cmd in one call to system() — James Elderfield, Aug 23 '13 at 13:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '13 at 13:20

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Try the following:

shell('copy Frame_Ind* all.dat')

answered Aug 23 '13 at 13:20

G. Grothendieck

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