ln-win

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ln-win consists of a JunctionPoint library and a port of the unix ln tool for Windows, developed and maintained by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi [email protected] of NeoSmart Technologies http://neosmart.net/

ln.exe

• ln-win implements both hardlinks and softlinks for both files and folders

• Create softlinks by specifying /s in the commandline

• Hardlinks are created by default (per the posix standard)

JunctionPoints library

• CreateJunctionPoint will create a reparse point (hardlink) for an NTFS directory

• GetJunctionDestination will get the final target directory for a symlink'd or hardlink'd directory. Files are not supported by this function.

• DeleteJunctionDestination will remove the reparse point from a directory

• IsDirectoryJunction will test whether a directory is a symlink or junction point to another directory

Install:

• Compile and copy the x64 build to C:\Windows\System32

• Compile and copy the x86 build to C:\Windows\SysWow64

• Use from the commandline as usual: ln.exe [/s] source destination