Top "Symlink" questions

Symlink is short for symbolic link (also soft link).

replace all symlinks with original

I have the following directory structure /symdir sym1 -> ../dir1 sym2 -> ../dir2 hello.txt And then /dir1 …

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Detecting a symlink in Java

Given a Java 'File' object, how can I detect whether or not it refers to a symlink? (If it helps/…

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How do I get the target of a symlink?

I have a string containing the file system path to an existing symlink. I want to get the path that …

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Enable native NTFS symbolic links for Cygwin

Recent NTFS and Windows implement symlinks: NTFS junction point can be used as directory symlink since NTFS 3.0 (Windows 2000) using linkd …

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How do I move/copy a symlink to a different folder as a symlink under Solaris?

It is an odd behaviour seen only on Solaris that when I try to copy a symbolic link with the "…

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How to figure out if a file is a link?

I have the below code only a part of it is shown here and I am checking if a the …

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How do I create a symbolic link using a batch script in windows?

I am currently using the following script to copy all files with a certain prefix to a target directory: for /…

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Copying a symbolic link in Python

I want to copy a file src to the destination dst, but if src happens to be a symbolic link, …

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In Bash, how do I safely determine what a soft link points to?

I need to process a number of directories, determine what files in them are symlinks, and what they link to. …

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How do I create a soft link programmatically in C/C++?

How do I create a soft link programmatically in C/C++? link() system call in freebsd will create a hard …

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