On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:05:06PM -, Christopher January wrote:
How can I automatically convert all symlinks on my Cygwin filesystem from
the !symlink format to windows shortcuts? Samba doesn't seem to
maintain the correct permissions for the Cygwin DLL to detect the
!symlink files as symlinks, so they are treated as regular files
(hence the errors with gcc, etc. I was seeing). Thanks Chris and others
for pointing me in the right direction to diagnose this. I now need a way
of converting all those symlink files to windows shortcuts so I can use
Cygwin at college.
Chris
Write a script which reads the content of the symlink, then removes the
old one and eventually recreates it. The resulting symlink will have the
appropriate format according to the CYGWIN env. var. Sth like this
for i in `find / -type l`
do
TARGET=`ls -l $i | awk '{print $NF;}'`
rm $i
ln -s $TARGET $i
done
Corinna
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