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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Andrey Repin <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Broken links in Cygwin installation
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:43:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374387774.20220822214314@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1755994279.20220822191254@yandex.ru>

Greetings, Andrey Repin!

> Small background: I've been moving my Cygwin installations around to match
> path locations between different systems. I've ended up with a lot of broken
> symlinks, between which some are actually lost.
> I've baked a PowerShell script to solve the issue (see attachment).
> Also in attachment a powershell startup wrapper for /usr/local/bin/

find -L / -xdev -type l -execdir fixmylinks.ps1 OldPathFragment New\\PathFragment '{}' +

In all broken links, script will look for "OldPathFragment", and if replacing
the fragment with "New\\PathFragment" produce valid existing path, it will
create a new link in place.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, August 22, 2022 21:38:22

Sorry for my terrible english...


      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-22 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-21 11:42 Andrey Repin
2022-08-21 15:09 ` Ken Brown
2022-08-22 16:12   ` Andrey Repin
2022-08-22 18:43     ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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