Thorsten Kampe <thorsten <at> thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> * Lloyd Zusman (Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:49:51 +0000 (UTC))
> >
> > Cygwin offers the "-W, --windows" extension to ps and the regtool,
> > getfacl, and setfacl commands (to name but three) which offer
> > Windows-specific (i.e., non-Linux) capabilities.
>
> I see your point regarding get/setfacl and regtool. As far as I know
> these offer a different approach and somewhat different functionality
> than cacls/xcacls and reg.exe. There's also a Cygwin ping.
>
> The question is here: what could a Cygwin attrib do (or do
> differently) that the native attrib does not?
Well, for one thing, things like this don't work:
find . -type f -print | xargs attrib
Yes, I know that I could put a wrapper script around attrib to apply
cygpath to the argument, to name but one of several ways to solve this.
In fact, I have already done this, thereby making my own cygwin-compliant
analog to attrib.
Remember that I'm not asking that anyone invent a cygwin utility that does
what attrib does. I was just wondering _if_ something like that existed.
But now, since I know that there is no such thing in cygwin, I'll just
continue to make use of the wrapper-script hack^H^H^H^Hworkround.
Thanks for your opinions and feedback.
P.S. -- Here's my script. I call it "cattrib" (I'm posting via gmane,
so forgive me if the indentation is screwed up):
#!/bin/bash
signaled() {
echo -e '\r!!! aborted'
exit 1
}
trap 'signaled' 1 2 3 15
for arg
do
echo $(cygpath --unix $(attrib $(cygpath --windows ${arg})))
done
exit 0
--
Lloyd Zusman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
God bless you.
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