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Subject:  Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?
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Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke <at> tibco.com> writes:
> 
> Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
> > P.S. -- Here's my script.  I call it "cattrib" (I'm posting via gmane,
> > so forgive me if the indentation is screwed up):
> > [snip script]
> 
> You could probably make this even more transparent by dropping a symlink 
> 'attrib' to this somewhere high in $PATH (or renaming it, but the 
> symlink lets 'cattrib' force calling the script even if the Windows 
> 'attrib' is higher in PATH) and having the script call 'attrib.exe' 
> (which won't pick up the script).
> 
> Also, if you want it to be *really* transparent, you should be 'cut -c 
> 12-'ing the output of attrib and then appending the original arg before 
> its trip through cygpath, otherwise you potentially mangle things due to 
> symlinks, mount points, etc.
> 
> i.e. something like this:
> echo "$(attrib.exe $(cygpath -w "${arg}") | cut -c 12-)${arg}"

Yep.  These are all good suggestions.  The script as written was rightfully
named a "hack" because it wasn't robust in the ways you're suggesting.

The only thing I disagree with is symlinking it to "attrib", since this
might cause confusion to users other than me who expect that program to
work in the Windows-specific manner.  If I want the "attrib" name, I'd
rather just make that a bash or zsh alias.

Thank you very much.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz AT asfast DOT com
 God bless you.






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