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Re: how to open *.htm and *.lnk
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0800
- Subject: Re: how to open *.htm and *.lnk
Hongxun,
Here are the elements you need:
For BASH users (equivalents presumably exist in other shells):
% help test
...
-h FILE True if file is a symbolic link.
-L FILE True if file is a symbolic link.
...
% man readlink
% cygpath --help
Now, write a BASH (or other shell) script that, after using the
aforementioned primitives to get a native Windows name for the target file,
invokes:
cmd /q /c start /b WindowsFileName
You will then no longer need to construct one-off BAT files to open files
from Cygwin. See my message from yesterday with the Subject "CYGWIN=ntsec
Pragmattics" (sic) for a caveat about file permissions and use of the "cmd
..." invocation I mentioned just above.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 12:11 2002-01-28, you wrote:
>At the moment, my way to open an htm file is to put its name in a DOS
>batch file, and then run the batchfile, which makes things complicated;
>but by no way can i open an lnk. Any simpler methods ? Thanks
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