Copying Objects

A complete object can be copied from one location to another using

qcl>COPY HDF_OLD,HDF_NEW

The object HDF_OLD is copied to a new object HDF_NEW. Note that HDF_NEW must not exist already and the object created by the copy will have the same dimensions and type as the original. The copying is done recursively so that complete structures including all the primitive contents can be transferred using this command. Both parameters can contain a prefixed file name. If this is not included then the default node is used.

qcl>COPY 'data.dat%image','newdata.dat%image'
qcl>COPY 'image','newdata.dat%image'
qcl>COPY 'data.dat%image','image'

The first of the above three commands uses a full specification for both source and destination objects. In the second and third form the default node is used when the <filename>% is not used as a prefix.