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Hello,
I' trying to use a BASH script running on Cygwin to change the name of a large number of Windows files. The filenames are in DOS 8.3 format. My script reads a translation file that lists each DOS 8.3 filename, and the corresponding correct filename.
The problem is that the script cannot change the filenames because it doesn't have sufficient priority.
On Cygwin, the files are listed as follows: http://old.nabble.com/file/p29077481/cygwin.png
On Windows, I manually modified the file to have the permissions: Authenticated Users: Full control Users (<machine name>\Users): Full control http://old.nabble.com/file/p29077481/win7.png
I'm running Cygwin from the same Windows accounts I use to access these files,
Why, when I manually change the file permissions from Window, are the updated permissions not visible from within Cygwin? Why can't I modify the permissions from within Cygwin, since it is the same account?
I've rerread the Cygwin documentation (Chapter 2), but I couldn't see anything there.
Can anyone help?
You need to decide which set of permissions you want to use, POSIX or Windows, with Cygwin. If the former, read
and run 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' with the appropriate flags for your installation to get your user and group in the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files. If you prefer to use Windows permissions only, set the 'noacl' option for all the mount points for which you want Windows permissions (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount).
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