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Date:	Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:09:04 -0500
Subject:	RE: symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style
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Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, March 05, 2010 10:33 AM
>On Mar 5 09:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows sh=
ortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to "plain files wi=
th a magic number, a path and the system attribute set".  (See "(no)winsyml=
inks" in <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.)
>
>Something like that
>  for lnk in $(find . -xdev -type l)
>  do
>    tgt=3D$(readlink $lnk)
>    rm -f "$lnk"
>    ln -s "$tgt" "$lnk"
>  done

Thank you.

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