VisualGDB version 5.5 preview 7, build 3666. I have a CMake integration project.  VS 2017.

I’d like to create a symlink on my target machine as part of a custom shortcut.  It appears that the command must return success, or later attempted runs of the shortcut (which has copy commands in it as well) stop working altogether (I find I have to reload the VisualGDB project in my solution to recover this situation). So I need to make the ln command conditional, otherwise it will return failure if the link already exists. So my first attempt with “Command” set to ln and “Arguments” set to the ln arguments works but only if the link does not already exist.

Next I try to use conditional shell logic, basically:

if[ ! -e mylink ]; then ln -s linktarget mylink; fi

The Command and Arguments to try to make this work are like this:

bash

and

-c 'if [ ! -e mylink ]; then ln -s linktarget mylink; fi'

The above ‘bash -c’ command works as expected if run from an interactive shell.  However, the custom shortcut output is:

Executing Run "bash -c 'if [ ! -e /tmp/libpalio.so ]; then ln -s /usr/lib/libpalio.so.5.2 /tmp/libpalio.so; fi'" in directory "/tmp" on TargetMachine (alias)...
LIBSSH2 returned LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND
Failed executing custom shortcut. See the log above for more details.

or it prints this, if I have freshly (re)loaded the project:

Executing Run "bash -c 'if [ ! -e /tmp/libpalio.so ]; then ln -s /usr/lib/libpalio.so.5.2 /tmp/libpalio.so; fi'" in directory "/tmp" on TargetMachine (alias)...
The custom shortcut was executed successfully. See the log above for more details.

Any suggestions for how to achieve the creation of this link in a custom shortcut would be appreciated.

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