Hello, I am trying to use the @pathnames expansion (see http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN852 ), but it seems not to work: >/usr/bin/echo @mylist @mylist >/bin/echo @mylist @mylist >echo @mylist @mylist >cat mylist This is "a long" line What could be the problem? Thank you for your help. Bye, Joachim P.S. My version of cygwin: >uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 MU0A2057 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown >bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05.0(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- GMXler aufgepasst - jetzt viele 1&1 New WebHosting Pakete ohne Einrichtungsgebuehr + 1 Monat Grundgebuehrbefreiung! http://puretec.de/index.html?ac=OM.PU.PU003K00717T0492a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/