Magnus,
The @-file expansion feature is active only when a non-Cygwin program
invokes a Cygwin executable.
Try your examples from CMD.exe or COMMAND.exe and you'll see that
@-file expansion works as advertised.
Randall Schulz
At 09:11 2003-07-15, Magnus Lewis-Smith wrote:
Do you have to do an
Do you have to do anything special to turn on @pathname expansion?
The Cygwin User Guide, Chapter 3 (Special Filenames)
[http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html]
states:
Example 3-2. Using @pathname
bash$ echo 'This is "a long" line' > mylist
bash$ echo @mylis
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