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Marco Atzeri wrote:
> not really cygwin specific 
> find /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ -print0 |xargs --null ls
> see  "man xargs"

That explains it.  Here's a work-around:

    2009-08-31 04:04:36 dpchrist AT p43400e ~
    $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ | perl -ne 's/\n/\00/;
 print' | xargs -0 ls -dl
    drwxrwxr-x+ 9 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Aug 30 01:19 /cygdrive/c/Docum
ents and Settings/


Add the Perl one-liner to my .bashrc as an alias:

    2009-08-31 04:14:45 dpchrist AT p43400e ~
    $ vi .bashrc
    alias nl2null="perl -ne 's/\n/\00/; print'"


Life is good!

    2009-08-31 04:16:03 dpchrist AT p43400e ~
    $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ | nl2null | xargs -0 l
s -dl
    drwxrwxr-x+ 9 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Aug 30 01:19 /cygdrive/c/Docum
ents and Settings/


Thanks!  :-)


David


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