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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:50:29 -0600
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Subject: Re: use the list of files stored in a text file and process it
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:39 AM, 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
>
> $ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter=3D"\n" ls
> xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=3D\n: the delimiter=
 must be
> either a single char
> acter or an escape sequence starting with \.
>
> $ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter=3D'\n' ls
> xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=3D\n: the delimiter=
 must be
> either a single char
> acter or an escape sequence starting with \.
>
> $ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter=3D'\\n' ls
> xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=3D\\n: the delimite=
r must be
> either a single cha
> racter or an escape sequence starting with \.
>
> $ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter=3D"\\n" ls
> xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=3D\n: the delimiter=
 must be
> either a single char
> acter or an escape sequence starting with \.
>
> $ uname -srv
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07
>
>
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$ ls $(cat test.txt)

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