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 -- 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
