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Subject: Re: WSL symbolic links
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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:30:06 +0100
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Am 28.03.2020 um 11:31 schrieb Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>
>> ...  wished for a while: a program that would classify a file name as
>> a (regular) hard link, a Windows directory or file link, a junction, a
>> Windows shortcut, a Cygwin symlink, a Unix/WSL symlink, a URL link,
>> and/or tell me where it links to etc. Thinking of hacking that plus
>> maybe bits of file, cygpath, readshortcut, readlink, lsattr together
>> to display otherwise awkward to access attributes and properties.
> Oh, yes please!  You could call it 'swan', for Swiss Army Knife :-).
Or maybe simply an additional option for `ls -l`?
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