READLINK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 20 June 2003
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NAME

readlink - resolve shell shortcuts  

SYNOPSIS

readlink link_file]  

DESCRIPTION

Readlink will resolve Windows shell links (shortcuts). Its single mandatory argument must be a Windows shortcut. Readlink will resolve the shortcut's target and display it on its standard output. Note that if a shortcut's target is changed (moved, renamed, deleted) Windows will attempt to locate the file using a set of heuristics. As readlink uses the Windows API for resolving shortcuts it will also try to locate targets. provied text-based accedd to the Windows registry.  

OPTIONS

None.  

EXAMPLE

readlink shortcut.lnk
will display the shortcut's target file.  

SEE ALSO

D. Spinellis. Outwit: Unix tool-based programming meets the Windows world. In USENIX 2000 Technical Conference Proceedings, pages 149-158, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2000, USENIX Association.  

AUTHOR

(C) Copyright 1999, 2000 Diomidis Spinellis. All rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

BUGS

Links to special Windows folders will produce no output.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
BUGS

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