Accessing a cygwin symlink from windows

Question

I am quite new to cygwin. I created a symlink as follows

$ ln -s /var/www /cygdrive/d/foo

and when

Answer 1

One alternative way to call mklink (/d creates directory link) without function:

link_name="/cygdrive/c/TestLink"
target_dir="/cygwin/c/Windows"
cmd /c mklink /d "`cygpath -w \"$link_name\"`" "`cygpath -w \"$target_dir\"`"

This example uses backticks (`command`) for command substitution.