Pass the files path to finfo(), can be unix path, dos path, relative or absolute. The file is converted into an absolute nix path, then checked to see if it is in-fact a regular/existing file. Then converted into an absolute windows path and sent to "wmic". Then magic, you have windows file details right in the terminal. Uses: cygwin, cygpath, sed, and awk. Needs Windows WMI "wmic.exe" to be operational. The output is corrected for easy...
finfo notepad.exe
finfo "C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe"
finfo /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/notepad.exe
finfo "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/notepad.exe"
finfo ../notepad.exe
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