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use the list of files stored in a text file and process it
- From: albert kao <albertkao3 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:39:10 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: use the list of files stored in a text file and process it
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="\n" ls
xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=\n: the delimiter must be
either a single char
acter or an escape sequence starting with \.
$ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter='\n' ls
xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=\n: the delimiter must be
either a single char
acter or an escape sequence starting with \.
$ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter='\\n' ls
xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=\\n: the delimiter must be
either a single cha
racter or an escape sequence starting with \.
$ cat test.txt | xargs -delimiter="\\n" ls
xargs: Invalid input delimiter specification elimiter=\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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