Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Junction : Symblink on windows

Symbolic links are very nice thing with Linux , On windows on the other hand this is not really done so easily , but a tool i came across an year ago which makes things very easy.

It called Junction and is available on this website 
  1. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

  2. You have to download this to you machine , I downloaded and extracted it in my c:\Junction folder
  3. Use CMD to get to this directory


     I lookup help on this tool by running /? as a wildcard
  4. Then simply run
    Junction <target directory> <Junction target>



    Now it will show you created and targeted as shown above
  5. Now test it out , by opening the directory

Now you are ready to use the junctions and Symbolic links as per your need :) 

Please do comment :)

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