Cygwin seems to have no way to print an accurate size of a symlink. Consider this command:
$ touch alfa.txt $ CYGWIN= ln -s alfa.txt bravo.txt Now cmd.exe can print the correct size just fine: > dir /AS 2017-03-07 09:26 PM 30 bravo.txt However Cygwin prints incorrect 8 bytes with ls: $ ls -l total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 Steven None 0 Mar 7 21:26 alfa.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 Steven None 8 Mar 7 21:26 bravo.txt -> alfa.txt and stat: $ stat --format %s bravo.txt 8 and du: $ du -b bravo.txt 8 bravo.txt and find: $ find bravo.txt -printf %s 8 wc seems to draw from the source file: $ wc -c bravo.txt 0 bravo.txt What gives? -- 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
