Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:53:27 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath Message-ID: <20040512185327.GA22266@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:21:36AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >>It would be cool if cygpath had an option to resolve any symlinks and >>shortcuts in the path. > >Yes, it would. Patches thankfully accepted. :) I don't see this as a function of cygpath. cygpath is for performing operations on the windows environment. Having it resolve symlinks is outside of that scope. You can use regular UNIX-like tools to do that. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/