ln-s does not work.. why? (using cygwin in Windows XP)
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From: ihightower on 5 Apr 2010 04:39 On Apr 1, 2:28 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...(a)web.de> wrote: > ihightowerwrote: > > I have made sure that I can cd to the directory and verified it. Even > > did cd to a local directory (not in share)... > > > ln -s '/cygdrive/c/TEST/' test_f > > Maybe you should not single-quote the target path? > > > this creates a system file too... and i can't double click or cd to > > there. > > > i tried both of your tests... and this is the result > > > $ ls --color -l test_f > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator None 17 2010-03-31 17:01 test_f -> / > > cygdrive/c/Test// > > ISTM that because of the single-quoting there's an extra `/' now, so that > might as well be the problem. (I have not used Cygwin since half a year, I > like real GNU/Linux better :)) > > > $ readlink test_f > > /cygdrive/c/Test/ > > That's a bit weird, though. Why should there be an extra slash above and > not here? Have you aliased `ls' to `ls -p' or `ls -F'? > > > but as i said.. in windows explorer.. it says.. > > > test_f 1KB System file > > > while all my other earlier symbolic links are > > > itshare 1KB Shortcut > > The File Type column is rather meaningless in Windows Explorer. You need > to enable the display of filename extensions for the first column to see > what is really going on. "Shortcuts" should have the suffix .LNK, "System > files" would not. > > > ??????????????totally confused. > > Your Question Mark key is borken. > > Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum next time. > > PointedEars Tried various options as per your recommendations.. but still no avail... In Windows Explorer... extensions will be shown.. but for shortcuts.. it doesn't appear.. all other files will show extension... e.g. text.xls test.php ,etc This is what I have.. Administrator(a)BFSCILAP22 /cygdrive/c/x $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/Test test_f Administrator(a)BFSCILAP22 /cygdrive/c/x $ readlink test_f /cygdrive/c/Test Administrator(a)BFSCILAP22 /cygdrive/c/x $ ls --color -l test_f lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator None 16 2010-04-05 15:33 test_f -> / cygdrive/c/Test/ Administrator(a)BFSCILAP22 /cygdrive/c/x $ And, in Windows Explorer... when I double click.. it just opens up a "Open With" dialog box.. with a list of all installed applications. It says "System File" and also no extension. I have other shortcuts which were created months earlier (using the same approach).. and that works very well... only I can't create any more new ones.. Someone please help.
From: Bill Marcum on 5 Apr 2010 14:03 On 2010-04-05, ihightower <emailsrvr-groups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > And, in Windows Explorer... when I double click.. it just opens up a > "Open With" dialog box.. with a list of all installed applications. It > says "System File" and also no extension. > > I have other shortcuts which were created months earlier (using the > same approach).. and that works very well... only I can't create any > more new ones.. > > Someone please help. Have you tried reinstalling cygwin?
From: ihightower on 7 Apr 2010 00:12
On Apr 6, 1:03 am, Bill Marcum <b...(a)lat.localnet> wrote: > On 2010-04-05,ihightower<emailsrvr-gro...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > And, in Windows Explorer... when I double click.. it just opens up a > > "Open With" dialog box.. with a list of all installed applications. It > > says "System File" and also no extension. > > > I have other shortcuts which were created months earlier (using the > > same approach).. and that works very well... only I can't create any > > more new ones.. > > > Someone please help. > > Have you tried reinstalling cygwin? Thank you for the reply.. and I did the following to make it partly work.. I didn't complete reinstall cygwin... but i just ran the setup.exe.. and reinstalled bash, and other coreutils.. i just picked a few items (for reinstallation) on my own which i think related to this.. Then, started up cygwin... This time... I can cd to the symlink from cygwin... works good now. But, still in Windows, I can't double click on the symlink to take me to the directory and it still shows as a "System File". Any further pointers...?? |