Re: [Mingw-users] Is it possible to show a symlink?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Mark Mikofski wrote:
> I did some searching and found some conflicting answers to this question. Most sites say that MinGW does not support symlinks, but then there was a patch floating around that did; Was it ever implemented? (Apparently not since it is still open?)
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> Regardless, I have created links (by default hard) and evidently they work, although they appear to be exact duplicates of the original. I have tested them by altering the target, and then checking if the link is updated, and lo-and-behold, it is. Doesn't that mean that the files are linked?
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> The issue is that I can't see links by using `ls -l`, and they certainly don't show up any different in windows explorer. How do I tell if a file is a link made by MSYS `ln`? Or if I'm completely misunderstanding (which is most likely the case) could someone please enlighten me?
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> Normally ls -l shows the links with an arrow --> to the target, so that's what I'd expect.

No one has taken the time to add the functionality to MSYS.  You only
option at the moment is to use cmd and ask it for a directory listing.
 The below will give it to you from the MSYS command window.  On
windows 7 you can also use cmd's mklink option, to learn about it use
the help command displayed below.

$ cmd //c dir //x
$ cmd //c help mklink

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