Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/11/10/09:43:00
yes; ls -L just displays it as /tmp/ instead of /tmp@ :) not really
resolving it.
the find works for /tmp, but not for /tmp/<somefile> -- basically, %l
returns the empty string if the item in question isn't a symbolic link in
and of itself. so /windows returns nothing. what i'm looking for is
something that will resolve all symbolic links in a path name, leaving the
non-symbolic bits untouched.
thanks again :)
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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: Donald E. Hammond [mailto:dhammond AT nac DOT net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:11 AM
> To: Halim, Salman
> Cc: 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com '
> Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
>
>
> Salman -
>
> ls -L should work, I think, but doesn't seem to in my 1.0 CD
> installation. Don't know if it's a bug, or misunderstanding on my
> part. Try: 'find /tmp -printf %l' (or -printf "%l\n"),
> which seems to
> work.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> - Don
>
>
>
> Halim, Salman wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > 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. .
> > .
> >
>
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