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Re: pb with ln -s
- To: Chris <Christine dot Pourcelot at inria dot fr>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: pb with ln -s
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:14:41 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Chris <Christine.Pourcelot@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi there
> I got a problem with 'ln -s' to create symbolic links :
> for example, I've got a file toto and I do 'ln -s toto titi'
> when I do 'cat titi', I get "!<symlink>toto"
> can anybody help me ?
You are obviously executing a version of cat which is a non-cygwin
binary. To find out where the cat is being executed from do the bash
command `type -a cat'. This will show you all of the possibilities
that reside on the PATH, the first one listed will be the one being
executed.
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