X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Brian Wilson" To: albert kao , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: use the list of files stored in a text file and process it Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:19:29 -0400 Message-Id: <20100930151659.M44950@ds.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-OriginatingIP: 57.250.242.249 (wilson) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > 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 > snip... Try something like "cat test.txt | xargs -i ls {}" or "cat test.txt | xargs -t ls" I suspect the first one will work for you and the second one will show you the command line before running the command (to help you debug in future). Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple