Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke <at> tibco.com> writes:
>
> Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
> > P.S. -- Here's my script. I call it "cattrib" (I'm posting via gmane,
> > so forgive me if the indentation is screwed up):
> > [snip script]
>
> You could probably make this even more transparent by dropping a symlink
> 'attrib' to this somewhere high in $PATH (or renaming it, but the
> symlink lets 'cattrib' force calling the script even if the Windows
> 'attrib' is higher in PATH) and having the script call 'attrib.exe'
> (which won't pick up the script).
>
> Also, if you want it to be *really* transparent, you should be 'cut -c
> 12-'ing the output of attrib and then appending the original arg before
> its trip through cygpath, otherwise you potentially mangle things due to
> symlinks, mount points, etc.
>
> i.e. something like this:
> echo "$(attrib.exe $(cygpath -w "${arg}") | cut -c 12-)${arg}"
Yep. These are all good suggestions. The script as written was rightfully
named a "hack" because it wasn't robust in the ways you're suggesting.
The only thing I disagree with is symlinking it to "attrib", since this
might cause confusion to users other than me who expect that program to
work in the Windows-specific manner. If I want the "attrib" name, I'd
rather just make that a bash or zsh alias.
Thank you very much.
--
Lloyd Zusman
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God bless you.
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