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 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple