{"id":19636,"date":"2017-01-17T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2017-01-17T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:46:49","slug":"windows-file-system-links-soft-symbolic-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-file-system-links-soft-symbolic-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows:  file system links: soft (symbolic) links"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor continues about file system links in Windows.<\/h1>\n<p>In <a href=\"?p=19622\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I began about file system links, emphasizing hard links.  Today I&#8217;ll continue, this time with soft, or symbolic, ones.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Windows refers to soft links as symbolic links or <em>symlinks<\/em>.  A file can be opened from its symbolic link, but the user can see the file resides elsewhere.  In the Command Prompt, a symbolic link is labeled &#60;SYMLINK&#62;, while in Windows Explorer, it appears as type <span style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:110%\">.symlink<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>To construct a symbolic link in Windows, first open the Command Prompt, which you may have to run as administrator.  The command might look like<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:110%\">mklink c:\\the_direc\\the_link_name c:\\other_direc\\the_file_name<\/p>\n<p>I tested a web page opening a script at both a hard link and a symbolic one.  The hard one runs, but the soft one doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/howto\/16226\/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux\/\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor continues about file system links in Windows. In yesterday&#8217;s post I began about file system links, emphasizing hard links. Today I&#8217;ll continue, this time with soft, or symbolic, ones. Apparently, Windows refers to soft links as symbolic links &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-file-system-links-soft-symbolic-links\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows:  file system links: soft (symbolic) links<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,1141],"tags":[2105,2104],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-windows-2","tag-soft-link","tag-symbolic-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19656,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions\/19656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}