Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote:

> Igor Peshansky <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> >
> > > Well, for one thing, things like this don't work:
> > >   find . -type f -print | xargs attrib
> >
> > find . -type f -print | cygpath -w -f- | xargs attrib
> >
> > Won't work with -print0, but you get the idea.
> > 	Igor
>
> Thank you.  I've tried this, and the -L1 argument is needed
> with xargs.  But even with that, the pathnames get screwed
> up for subdirectories ...
> [snip]
>   $ pwd
>   /home/me
>   $ cygpath -w `pwd`
>   e:\home\me
>   $ find . -type f -print | cygpath -w -f- | xargs -L1 attrib
>   A          E:\home\me\.bash_history
>   A          E:\home\me\.cvspass
>   File not found - .elinksbookmarks
>   File not found - .elinkscookies
>   File not found - .elinkselinks.conf
>   File not found - .elinksglobhist
>   File not found - .elinksgotohist
>   A          E:\home\me\.emacs
>   File not found - .fluxboxfbrun_history
>   ... etc. ...
>
> Because of cygpath, filenames such as .elinks/bookmarks and
> .fluxbox/fbrun_history are passed to xargs like this:
> .elinks\bookmarks and .fluxbox\fbrun_history.
>
> Then xargs invokes attrib via a subshell, and therefore,
> shell meta-character handling is performed. That causes
> the backslashes in those path names to be removed before
> they get passed to the attrib command, thereby causing
> that program to see incorrect file names.

Indeed.  So how about using the "-m" option of cygpath, instead of the
"-w"?  FWICS, attrib will happily understand "/"-delimited filenames.

> Because of this, a hacky wrapper script for attrib like the
> one I wrote in my earlier message is still needed, unfortunately.

I had no problem running your test with "cygpath -m".
	Igor
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