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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:26:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alexis Cothenet <cothenet AT cppm DOT in2p3 DOT fr>
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Alexis,

It's usually not a good idea to address Cygwin-related questions to
individual list members.  By addressing the question to the main Cygwin
mailing list, you get access to the combined expertise of many thousands
of its members, as well as the benefits of web archiving.  For your
convenience, I've redirected this reply to the list, and set Reply-To
accordingly.  Please keep the rest of this discussion on the mailing list.
More below.

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Alexis Cothenet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I write you about a shell problem i have using cygwin because you seems
> to know well about it ;-)
> This is what i do:
>
> When i type
>  cat /cygdrive/d/Documents\ and\ Settings/file.txt | wc -l
> it works well.
>
> Now if i put in an other ascii file a.txt the input
> /cygdrive/d/Documents\ and\ Settings/file.txt
>
> and do
> cat `cat a.txt | head -1` | wc -l
> it doesn't work saying
> cat:/cygdrive/d/Documents\: no such file or directory
> cat: and\: no such file or directory...
>
> Clearly, the path is not understood when i put it an other file...
> ( i tryed to put only file.txt as input in a.txt and it works)
>
> Have you got an idea how to solve my problem ?
>
> Thanks very much in advance!
> Cheers,
> Alexis

I don't use tcsh (which I'm guessing is your shell, based on the subject),
but I'd say it's a quoting problem.  In bash, you'd put the `...`
expression in double-quotes.  This is not Cygwin-specific at all, BTW.
	Igor
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