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="\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 > >
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