powershell to resolve junction target path

Question

In PowerShell, I need resolve the target path of a junction (symlink).

for example, say I have a junction c:\\someJunction whose target is c:\\te

Answer 1

At least in PSv5 it's as easy as this to list all targets of some dirs links (or further down a single one) and get it as objects and nicely formatted (e.g. all the *~ dirs are actually junctions):

C:\Jaspersoft> ls | select name, target

Name                          Target
----                          ------
apache-websrv~                {C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache24\}
jasperreports-server-cp-6.3.0 {}
jasperreports-server-cp~      {C:\Jaspersoft\jasperreports-server-cp-6.3.0}
jr-srv-cp~                    {C:\Jaspersoft\jasperreports-server-cp~}

for one link:

C:\Jaspersoft> ls . apache-websrv~ | select name, target

Name           Target
----           ------
apache-websrv~ {C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache24\}

or (to just get the Target as a String value for the C:\Jaspersoft\apache-websrv~ junction):

> ls  C:\Jaspersoft  apache-websrv~  | %{$_.target}
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache24\

The standard ls would look like this for the examples:

C:\Jaspersoft> ls

    Verzeichnis: C:\Jaspersoft


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d----l       01.04.2019     15:05                apache-websrv~
d-----       02.04.2019     10:30                jasperreports-server-cp-6.3.0
d----l       05.10.2018     15:19                jasperreports-server-cp~
d----l       12.02.2019     11:46                jr-srv-cp~

(Other answers contained this in a way as well but not easily visible/understandable)