Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/11/10/10:33:19
Check out the code in "run". It's available from
http://cygutils.netpedia.net/. While "run" does not do what you want, it
contains code to recursively resolve symlinks and it shouldn't be too
hard to adapt to your purposes.
--Chuck
"Halim, Salman" wrote:
>
> that turns /tmp into c:\tmp; i need it to turn into c:\temp, which is what
> the actual directory is. basically, i would like to be able to call
> non-cygwin programs from my command line with something like:
>
> runCommand '<somecommand> <params> /tmp/<something>' and have it change the
> /tmp to c:\temp and then run the command. but i need the link to be
> resolved.
>
> regards,
>
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> Would you care for a drink? I mean, if it were, like,
> disabled and you had to look after it?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David O'Riva [mailto:oriva AT agames DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:45 AM
> > To: Halim, Salman
> > Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
> >
> >
> > "Halim, Salman" wrote:
> > >
> > > what's a good way to find out (programmatically; either
> > through a command or
> > > a piped series of commands or a function), in bash (if
> > relevant), the actual
> > > path pointed to by a symbolic link. for example, i have
> > /tmp pointing to
> > > c:\temp -- how can i get 'c:\temp' as output given '/tmp'
> > as input? i
> > > thought of ls -al /tmp | cut -d'>' -f 2- but that seems a
> > bit of a kludge. .
> > >
> >
> > Specifically for cygwin, you can use "cygpath -w /tmp". Very
> > handy for
> > using ancient editors ( function q { \q `cygpath -w $*` ; } )
> >
> > --
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> > \_________________________/
> >
>
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