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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: @file handling in Cygwin Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:13:19 -0700 Message-ID: <762C0A863A7674478671627FEAF584812C357A@hqmail01.powertv.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Cheng, Cheuk" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g7F0Der19912 Thanks Igor. Did you get the same thing to work within bash or sh? The example in the Cygwin User Guide actually uses an @file inside bash as a demonstration. cheng@powertv.com -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: @file handling in Cygwin On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:01:55PM -0700, Cheng, Cheuk wrote: > > Thanks all for their comments. Using ls -@lsflags will give "ls: > > invalid option -- @" instead. I also know of cat and xargs but I > > just want to check whether @file is supported _within_ Cygwin or > > not. > > Where is it supported? I've never seen it? > > Is it an "os" or "shell" feature so that it is not "ls" specific? > > Otherwise I'd think an ls(1) man page perusal would answer the > question negatively. This feature works when cygwin programs are invoked from the windows command shell: C:\cygwin\tmp\testls>type files files lsflags C:\cygwin\tmp\testls>type lsflags -a --color C:\cygwin\tmp\testls>ls -l @files -rw-rw-rw- 1 igor None 14 Aug 14 19:03 files -rw-rw-rw- 1 igor None 11 Aug 14 19:02 lsflags C:\cygwin\tmp\testls>ls @lsflags . .. files lsflags C:\cygwin\tmp\testls> Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- 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/ -- 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/