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Command line length limitations?  Yeah, there's xargs.  I'm not saying
$(cat lsflags) won't do, just that there's some merit in the @ syntax.

But in any case, upon rereading, I see this isn't really what Cheuk is
asking -- the claim is that there's evidence cygwin supports this.  Hmm,
time for the obvious: if the comment really says to use -@file, (i.e.
the dash is not a typo), then I'm not surprised ls @lsflags doesn't do
it.  Have you tried ls -@lsflags ?

stephan();



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 2:03 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: @file handling in Cygwin


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)"?




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