Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: @file handling in Cygwin Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:03:10 -0700 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3D5AC58E.7030204@Salira.com> References: <762C0A863A7674478671627FEAF584812C3576@hqmail01.powertv.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029358924 10354 206.184.204.2 (14 Aug 2002 21:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:02:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Cheng, Cheuk wrote: > Does anyone know if Cygwin is supposed to handle command syntax like > "ls @lsflags" where lsflags is a text file containing some command > line options for "ls"? I have located a function called insert_file() > inside dcrt0.cc which has a comment talking about replacing -@file in > the command line with the contents of the file. However, I have tried > to enter "ls @lsflags" inside bash running under Cygwin1.dll version > 1.3.10 and 1.3.11 but it always returns an error of "No such file or > directory". Why not simply "ls $(cat lsflags)"? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/