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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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  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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