Subject: RE: resolving symbolic links
From: "Halim, Salman" <[email-masked]>
To: "'David O'Riva'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:44:27 -0500

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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Riva [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:45 AM
> To: Halim, Salman
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 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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