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RE: symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, March 05, 2010 10:33 AM
>On Mar 5 09:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to "plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set". (See "(no)winsymlinks" in <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.)
>
>Something like that
> for lnk in $(find . -xdev -type l)
> do
> tgt=$(readlink $lnk)
> rm -f "$lnk"
> ln -s "$tgt" "$lnk"
> done
Thank you.
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