Brian Inglis writes: > ... wished for a while: a program that would classify a file name as > a (regular) hard link, a Windows directory or file link, a junction, a > Windows shortcut, a Cygwin symlink, a Unix/WSL symlink, a URL link, > and/or tell me where it links to etc. Thinking of hacking that plus > maybe bits of file, cygpath, readshortcut, readlink, lsattr together > to display otherwise awkward to access attributes and properties.
Oh, yes please! You could call it 'swan', for Swiss Army Knife :-). ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple