PERL Beginners - is there a way to read content from lnk on windows?

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is there a way to read content from lnk on windows?

Chen Yue

2008-01-24, 8:06 am

Hi

On Linux, I can use "-l" to judge whether a file is a soft link and use
readlink/Cwd::realpath to get its real path. But on windows (activeperl),
seems both function do not work. Is there a way to do this for me?

Yitzle

2008-01-24, 7:07 pm

Windows does not support the "links" that Unix has.
Windows links have a .lnk extension that you can check for.

Dr.Ruud

2008-01-24, 7:07 pm

yitzle schreef:

> Windows does not support the "links" that Unix has.
> Windows links have a .lnk extension that you can check for.

Both hardlinks and softlinks are supported, specifically with NTFS.
http://search.cpan.org/search?query...ink&mode=module
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=symlink&mode=module

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