On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George wrote:
> I keep running up against situations where I require access to the
> property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't
> accomplish otherwise.
Exactly which properties are you trying to change? Some of the security
ones can be changed via setfacl, as well as chmod/chown (I don't think
either one supports setting inheritable permissions, though).
> I'm wondering whether Cygwin offers some way I've not yet discovered to
> display the property sheet dialog for a folder/file. Seems it would
> save the trouble of opening an explorer window from bash, selecting a
> file, opening the context menu by right clicking and then selecting
> properties (before navigating the various tabs and clicking some more).
Not really Cygwin-specific, but look up the Shell API on MSDN [*] (which
you can invoke via rundll/rundll32), in particular, the SHObjectProperties
function.
To put this back on-topic, if you do manage to find a way to do what you
want that works on all OS's, please consider making a cygstart-like
utility to do this and contributing it to the Cygwin distribution.
HTH,
Igor
[*] One of the possible pointers is
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/functions.asp>
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