Questions tagged [interix]
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Detect Linux NTFS symlinks under Windows/WSL
Symlinks created in Linux on NTFS drives (ln -s) appear in Windows as short files with contents IntxLNK + 0x01 + (UTF-16 encoded target path) -- probably Interix. I want to write a script to convert ...
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Windows 7 Ultimate versus Cygwin: POSIX compliance and is it practical to install a GNU system directly on Win 7 Ultimate without Cygwin
What are the advantages or disadvantages of using GNU/Linux utilities on Windows 7 via Cygwin
as opposed to making use of Windows 7 Ultimate SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based applications)
support (...
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Bash on Interix causes segfault for any command
What could cause BASH commands to produce a segmentation fault when run from Interix v3.5?
BASH was installed as directed by SUA.
In experimentation, I've only encountered 'cd' functioning as expected....
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Why isn't Interix mkdir honoring -p argument?
I'm using Interix on Windows for Unix compatibility and am finding the -p argument to mkdir not behaving as I expect:
> which mkdir
C:\SFU\bin\mkdir
> mkdir -p c:\Program Files\
A subdirectory ...
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