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

Try junction.exe

The Junction command line utility from SysInternals makes creating and deleting junctions easy.

Further reading

• MS Terminology: soft != symbolic
  Microsoft uses "soft link" as another name for "junction".
  However: a "symbolic link" is something else entirely.
  See MSDN: Hard Links and Junctions in Windows.
  (This is in direct contradiction to the general usage of those terms where "soft link" and "symbolic link" ("symlink") DO mean the same thing.)