Re: How to copy and rename a file with netrw where the target and source directory are the same?

Shane Dev wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I appreciate the netrw author taking an interest in my newbie problem - but I am still stumped. I am running gvim 7.4.884 on Arch Linux. I checked some global variables -
>
> :ec g:loaded_netrwPlugin
> v153
> :ec g:netrw_localcopycmd
> cp
> :ec executable(g:netrw_localcopycmd)
> 1
>
> then I launch netrw on a directory which I have read/write permissions
> mt
> mf
> mc
> entered new file name
> **error** (netrw) tried using g:netrw_localcopycmd<cp>; it doesn't work!
>
> any clues?
>
There's one place in the netrw plugin that issues that message; it
means, for whatever reason, the system() command is failing (and setting
v:shell_error; line 6637 in version v154h).

What does

:call system("cp 'oldfilename' 'newfilename'")

do? (where oldfilename is an actual filename). Also see :help
netrw-debug.

Regards
Chip Campbell

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