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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:34:11 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Halim, Salman" <salman AT bluestone DOT com>
CC: "'David O'Riva'" <oriva AT agames DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
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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,
> 
> --
>    =========================================================
>    Salman Halim                 Advanced Technology Group
> 
>    Bluestone Software           Phone:  (856) 727-4600
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>    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 $*` ; } )
> >
> > --
> > -dave        _________________________
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> >             \_________________________/
> >
> 
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