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Re: symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:32:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style
- References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208B5EEA1BC@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 5 09:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to "plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set". (See "(no)winsymlinks" in <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.)
Something like that
for lnk in $(find . -xdev -type l)
do
tgt=$(readlink $lnk)
rm -f "$lnk"
ln -s "$tgt" "$lnk"
done
Corinna
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