Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:38 PM: > Peng Yu wrote: >>> No. Shortcuts created with Windows contain more and different > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> information than Cygwin symlinks. If you need a symlink, create it >>> under Cygwin. >> >> If I am willing to loose the additional information, is there a way >> to convert a windows link to a cygwin link? > > Getting rid of the "additional information" addresses the "more" part > above. You need to handle the "different" part as well. But why do > all that work yourself when "ln -s" does it for you? OK, let's make > this question rhetorical. ;-)
If for some reason the OP is going to do this so often that it needs to be automated, one use readshortcut to pull the target for ln -s out of the shortcut. (See also mkshortcut. They are in the cygutils package.) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
