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Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:45:14 -0700 |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
From: | Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net> |
Subject: | Re: Problems with @pathnames |
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Magnus, The @-file expansion feature is active only when a non-Cygwin program invokes a Cygwin executable. Try your examples from CMD.exe or COMMAND.exe and you'll see that @-file expansion works as advertised. Randall Schulz At 09:11 2003-07-15, Magnus Lewis-Smith wrote: >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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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