Problems with @pathnames
Magnus Lewis-Smith
mlewissmith@yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 15 19:34:00 GMT 2003
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 @mylist
@mylist
bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
This is a long line
bash$ rm mylist
bash$ /bin/echo @mylist
@mylist
which suggests that it should 'just happen'. However, I get:
(~) echo 'This is "a long" line' > mylist
(~) echo @mylist
@mylist
(~) /bin/echo @mylist
@mylist
which is clearly not what we want. This has only been happening with recent
cygwin1.dlls -- I'm using 1.3.22-1 now. I had an older setup -- long gone now,
but probably 1.2.something where it was working.
Any advice would be appreciated, particularly if I'm doing something really
stupid.
Thanks
Magnus Lewis-Smith
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