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RE: How to change the file mode to link?
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:38 PM:
> Peng Yu wrote:
>>> No. Shortcuts created with Windows contain more and different
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> information than Cygwin symlinks. If you need a symlink, create it
>>> under Cygwin.
>>
>> If I am willing to loose the additional information, is there a way
>> to convert a windows link to a cygwin link?
>
> Getting rid of the "additional information" addresses the "more" part
> above. You need to handle the "different" part as well. But why do
> all that work yourself when "ln -s" does it for you? OK, let's make
> this question rhetorical. ;-)
If for some reason the OP is going to do this so often that it needs to
be automated, one use readshortcut to pull the target for ln -s out of
the shortcut. (See also mkshortcut. They are in the cygutils package.)
- Barry
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