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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks


On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:00:28PM +0100, fergus wrote:
>Thanks for your very rapid and informative responses, and also the
>suggestions and references http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53)
>(How can I access other drives?) to using mounts rather than symlinks.
>
>Alol the same I've got a small preference for
>	ln -s /cygdrive/h h
>over
>	mkdir /h; mount -fsb h:/ /h
>which is probably easily addressed, but it is as follows.
>
>Both instructions are intended to be issue-once-only. With the former
>arrangement (symlinks) the command
>	find /
>(usually with qualifications of course) finds only folders on the root
>filesystem. If I want to include devices then additionally I
>	mkdir /cygdrive
>and lo! the command find / includes all the linked devices. Whereas,
>with the latter arrangement (mounts) the command
>	find /
>always includes the mounted devices; not usually, or certainly not
>often, what I want.

Sounds like you need to investigate "find -xdev".

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