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Re: cygpath
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:53:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygpath
- References: <pdy988306100538bcc77a8d4986@[209.128.98.50]> <20040512162136.13663.qmail@web61104.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:21:36AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>It would be cool if cygpath had an option to resolve any symlinks and
>>shortcuts in the path.
>
>Yes, it would. Patches thankfully accepted. :)
I don't see this as a function of cygpath. cygpath is for performing
operations on the windows environment. Having it resolve symlinks is
outside of that scope. You can use regular UNIX-like tools to do that.
cgf
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