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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 03:39:10PM +0000, albert kao wrote:
>I store a list of files in a text file (test.txt) on Windows XP.
>I want to use the list of files and process it (e.g. ls).
>What is the command to do that?
>I tried the following commands but to no avail.
>
>$ cat test.txt
>test.txt
>
>$ cat test.txt | xargs ls
>: No such file or directory

It looks like you have CRLF line endings in the file.  Run test.txt
through d2u and the above command should work.  It looks like you
can't just use xargs --delimiter since that option takes only a
single character.

So:

d2u < test.txt | xargs ls

cgf

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