General approach to reading lnk files

Question

Several frameworks and languages seem to have lnk file parsers (C#, Java, Python, certainly countless others), to get to their targets, properties, etc. I\'d like to know wh

Answer 1

Simply use lnk file parser at J.A.F.A.T. Archive of Forensics Analysis Tools project.

See lnk-parse-1.0.pl at http://jafat.sourceforge.net

There seems no have no dependencies. Syntax is simple and link file becomes a simple text in standard output and to be usable on Linux.