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Re: @file handling in Cygwin

Cheng, Cheuk wrote:
Does anyone know if Cygwin is supposed to handle command syntax like "ls @lsflags" where lsflags is a text file containing some command line options for "ls"? I have located a function called insert_file() inside dcrt0.cc which has a comment talking about replacing -@file in the command line with the contents of the file. However, I have tried to enter "ls @lsflags" inside bash running under Cygwin1.dll version 1.3.10 and 1.3.11 but it always returns an error of "No such file or directory".
Why not simply "ls $(cat lsflags)"?




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