Creating hard and soft links using PowerShell

Question

Can PowerShell 1.0 create hard and soft links analogous to the Unix variety?

If this isn\'t built in, can someone point me to a site that has a ps1 script that mimi

Answer 1

You can call the mklink provided by cmd, from PowerShell to make symbolic links:

cmd /c mklink c:\path\to\symlink c:\target\file

You must pass /d to mklink if the target is a directory.

cmd /c mklink /d c:\path\to\symlink c:\target\directory

For hard links, I suggest something like Sysinternals Junction.