windows symbolic link target

Question

Say that I set up a symbolic link:

mklink  /D C:\\root\\Public\\mytextfile.txt C:\\root\\Public\\myothertextfile.txt

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Answer 1

Maybe someone's interested in a C# method to resolve all directory symlinks in a directory similar to Directory.GetDirectories(). To list Junctions or File symlinks, simply change the regex.

static IEnumerable GetAllSymLinks(string workingdir)
{
    Process converter = new Process();
    converter.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c dir /Al") { RedirectStandardOutput = true, UseShellExecute = false, CreateNoWindow = true, WorkingDirectory = workingdir };
    string output = "";
    converter.OutputDataReceived += (sender, e) =>
    {
        output += e.Data + "\r\n";
    };
    converter.Start();
    converter.BeginOutputReadLine();
    converter.WaitForExit();

    Regex regex = new Regex(@"\n.*\\s(.*)\s\[(.*)\]\r");

    var matches = regex.Matches(output);
    foreach (Match match in matches)
    {
        var name = match.Groups[1].Value.Trim();
        var target = match.Groups[2].Value.Trim();
        Console.WriteLine("Symlink: " + name + " --> " + target);

        yield return new Symlink() { Name = name, Target = target };
    }
}

class Symlink
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Target { get; set; }
}