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Date: 11 Feb 2003 15:46:01 -0000
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Subject: RE: Re: Changing symlinks from 
From: Christopher January <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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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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