From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: WSL symbolic links
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:31:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5beetc6a97.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d017c403-0e57-28d4-3e36-693d63c427da@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (Brian Inglis's message of "Fri\, 27 Mar 2020 21\:32\:42 -0600")
Brian Inglis writes:
> ... wished for a while: a program that would classify a file name as
> a (regular) hard link, a Windows directory or file link, a junction, a
> Windows shortcut, a Cygwin symlink, a Unix/WSL symlink, a URL link,
> and/or tell me where it links to etc. Thinking of hacking that plus
> maybe bits of file, cygpath, readshortcut, readlink, lsattr together
> to display otherwise awkward to access attributes and properties.
Oh, yes please! You could call it 'swan', for Swiss Army Knife :-).
ht
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-28 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-26 9:00 Thomas Wolff
2020-03-26 11:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-26 16:15 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-26 19:12 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-26 19:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-26 23:52 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-27 5:46 ` ASSI
2020-03-27 11:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-27 12:24 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-27 13:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-27 14:43 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-26 20:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-27 17:58 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-27 18:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-28 3:32 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-28 10:31 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
2020-03-28 11:30 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-28 11:59 ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-28 20:45 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-29 11:52 ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-30 8:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-04-04 14:32 ` Denis Excoffier
2020-04-05 15:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
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