I have a script: #!/bin/bash W="\/cygdrive\/c\/Users\/dbj\/workspace\/1ドル\/." echo $W sed -n 's/^File[ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\"1円\" '"$W"'/p' < 2ドル | xargs cp Then I do $ ./cptest1.sh test list.txt \/cygdrive\/c\/Users\/dbj\/workspace\/test\/. cp: omitting directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/dbj/workspace/test/.' Why do I get "cp: omitting directory"? The content of list.txt is $ cat list.txt list of file File ..\test\file1.txt File ..\test\file2.txt end -- 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