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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
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Subject: Re: @file handling in Cygwin
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:03:10 -0700
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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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