resolving symbolic links

Wed Nov 10 06:54:00 GMT 1999

that turns /tmp into c:\tmp; i need it to turn into c:\temp, which is what
the actual directory is. basically, i would like to be able to call
non-cygwin programs from my command line with something like:
runCommand '<somecommand> <params> /tmp/<something>' and have it change the
/tmp to c:\temp and then run the command. but i need the link to be
resolved.
regards,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Riva [ mailto:oriva@agames.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 9:45 AM
> To: Halim, Salman
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: resolving symbolic links
>>> "Halim, Salman" wrote:
> >
> > what's a good way to find out (programmatically; either 
> through a command or
> > a piped series of commands or a function), in bash (if 
> relevant), the actual
> > path pointed to by a symbolic link. for example, i have 
> /tmp pointing to
> > c:\temp -- how can i get 'c:\temp' as output given '/tmp' 
> as input? i
> > thought of ls -al /tmp | cut -d'>' -f 2- but that seems a 
> bit of a kludge. .
> >
>> Specifically for cygwin, you can use "cygpath -w /tmp". Very 
> handy for
> using ancient editors ( function q { \q `cygpath -w $*` ; } )
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