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>On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:05:06PM -0000, Christopher January wrote:
>> How can I automatically convert all symlinks on my Cygwin filesystem
from
>> the "!<symlink>" format to windows shortcuts? Samba doesn't seem to
>> maintain the correct permissions for the Cygwin DLL to detect the
>> "!<symlink>" files as symlinks, so they are treated as regular files
>> (hence the errors with gcc, etc. I was seeing). Thanks Chris and others
>> for pointing me in the right direction to diagnose this. I now need a
way
>> of converting all those symlink files to windows shortcuts so I can use
>> Cygwin at college.
>> Chris
>
>Write a script which reads the content of the symlink, then removes the
>old one and eventually recreates it. The resulting symlink will have the
>appropriate format according to the CYGWIN env. var. Sth like this
>
> for i in `find / -type l`
> do
> TARGET=`ls -l $i | awk '{print $NF;}'`
> rm $i
> ln -s $TARGET $i
> done
For the record, the script I used was:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
here=$PWD
echo "here=$PWD"
IFS=$'\n'
grep -r -l '^\!<symlink>\(.*\)\x00' / | while read -r file;
do
dir="`dirname "$file"`"
file="`basename "$file"`"
cd $dir
dest="`sed 's/\!<symlink>\(.*\)\x00/\1/g' "$file"`"
rm $file
ln -s $dest $file
cd $here
done
Now I can run gcc hopefully I can patch Cygwin to run at a tolerable speed
on this setup!
Chris
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