Process Chain/OS command issue

Hello,
I am trying to execute a command similar to the following in an OS command in a process chain:
cp /path/filename*.txt /path/filenamexxx.txt
I know it's not a permissions problem.
This is the error message from the Process Chain Maintenance Log View:
cp: cannot access /path/filename*.txt: No such file or directory
External program terminated with exit code 1
I'm thinking it is a problem with the *(wildcard). If I take out the *(wildcard) it works flawlessly. It seems like SAP is not correctly interpreting the * character.
The purpose of my doing this is to remove the date text from the end of the file and store it in a different directory without the date text. e.g.
filename08032006.txt copy to different directory as filename.txt
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary Martins

hi,
i do not know what process cain maintenace view is but I wonder how this command should work on the commandline correctly:
say you have
filename_1.txt
filename_2.txt
and copy them according to your example to
filename_x.txt
This would be n files copied to one destination file. At best you had the destination overwritten n times and be left with the last source file in the destination file.
Would that make sense? Probably therefore this construct is not supported.
just my 2 cents,
anton

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