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Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool

by JonnieCache on 12/5/16, 11:28 PM with 27 comments

• by chungy on 12/6/16, 2:03 AM

  It seems a little unfortunate to have the name clash with the well-known Unix utility (this appears to be intentional? See how the web page is laid out like a traditional Unix manpage, too), but without the same command line arguments as said utility.

  If this is important to you (as it is to me), it's worth noting that Cygwin supports creating native NTFS symlinks, and you can use the good old GNU ln (same one you'd use on Linux!) to do so. There are some caveats, but it should at least attempt them. See the documentation: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlin...

• by jbronn on 12/6/16, 12:03 AM

  See also the SysInternals junction utility, which has provided NTFS linking funtionality for years:

  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.as...

• by JonnieCache on 12/5/16, 11:34 PM

  The standout for me is --delorean which is basically rdiff-backup for windows. There's a wrapper script for it here with some extra options: https://github.com/International-Nepal-Fellowship/Windows-To...

  Also this page badly needs a ToC.

• by nailer on 12/6/16, 12:43 PM

  What's the difference between this and New-HardLink and New-SoftLink, which are part of PSCX? http://pscx.codeplex.com/

• by phaed on 12/6/16, 4:06 AM

  Eras, the bane of my existence.

• by bsdlove on 12/6/16, 12:09 AM

  *NIX: Hard links since the 70s. Glad Windows is becoming less of a toy.