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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:47:30 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: @file handling in Cygwin
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Jon,

At 15:12 2002-08-14, 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?

Well, it _is_ documented, after all.

Remember way back before that silly old expression derived from a line in a 
now-campy Sci-Fi movie became popular, there was a much better expression 
that even had it's own acronym:

         RTFM


>Is it an "os" or "shell" feature so that it is not "ls" specific?

RTFM


>Otherwise I'd think an ls(1) man page perusal would answer the question 
>negatively.
>
>--
>Jon H. LaBadie


No free fish today, but I will offer a hint: There's more to Cygwin 
documentation than man pages or info files.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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