symlinks: converting Windows shortcuts to cygwin style

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  5 09:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Does someone have a script that converts symbolic links from "Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set" to "plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set".  (See "(no)winsymlinks" in <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.)

Something like that

  for lnk in $(find . -xdev -type l)
  do
    tgt=$(readlink $lnk)
    rm -f "$lnk"
    ln -s "$tgt" "$lnk"
  done


Corinna

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