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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:11:39 +0100 (BST)
From:	=?iso-8859-1?q?Magnus=20Lewis-Smith?= <mlewissmith AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	Problems with @pathnames
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Do you have to do anything special to turn on @pathname expansion?

The Cygwin User Guide, Chapter 3 (Special Filenames) 
[http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html]
states:

   Example 3-2. Using @pathname

   bash$ echo  'This   is   "a     long"  line' > mylist
   bash$ echo @mylist
   @mylist
   bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
   This is a     long line
   bash$ rm mylist
   bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
   @mylist
 

which suggests that it should 'just happen'.  However, I get:

   (~) echo  'This   is   "a     long"  line' > mylist
   (~) echo @mylist
   @mylist
   (~) /bin/echo @mylist
   @mylist

which is clearly not what we want.  This has only been happening with recent
cygwin1.dlls -- I'm using 1.3.22-1 now.  I had an older setup -- long gone now,
but probably 1.2.something where it was working.

Any advice would be appreciated, particularly if I'm doing something really
stupid.

Thanks
Magnus Lewis-Smith

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