I have an MSYS installation, and I am writing a bash script to set up some files. I would like to make a directory symbolic link from the bash script in MSYS, but to do that I will need to use mklink /D, which is a windows command. ln does not work with NTFS symbolic links, it only seems to copy the folder, so I cannot use that unfortunately.
I have a directory mounted as /opt in MSYS using fstab. The real directory is C:\opt (but it could be anything)
mklink expects a Windows-style path like C:\opt. However, I can only provide /opt which it cannot work with. Is there any way to get the "real" path of /opt?
Alternatively, if there's a way to get ln to work like mklink /D that'll be great. But I can't seem to find a way (there does exist a way in Cygwin however but it didn't seem to work for me)
Note: I do not have cygwin, and I do not want to install external software (including cygwin)
I figured it out somehow, although it is kinda an ugly hack
If I want to figure out the real Windows path of the current directory, I can used pwd -W, which is apparently an MSYS-only feature
In my script, I can probably do something like:
realpath=`cd /opt && pwd -W`
to get the real path of /opt. I tested it and it seems to work.
I'd appreciate a less ugly method though