darkdaskin/filesystemlinks

A cross-platrorm .NET Standard library for managing hard and symbolic links

FileSystemLinks

A cross-platform library for creating and reading file system links.

Features

• .NET Standard 2.0 and up, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and up, Mono and .NET Core compatible
• No dependencies
• Symbolic link code ported from .NET 6+
• Supports long paths on Windows
• Supports creating symbolic links without administrator rights on Windows
• Functions:
  • Creating hard links
  • Creating symbolic links
  • Creating junctions on Windows
  • Getting link target
  • Getting link type

Usage

All functions are available in two variants - as a static method accepting paths and as an excension method accepting a FileSystemInfo. For example, to create a symbolic link, use:

FileSystemLink.CreateFileSymbolicLink("path/to/link", "path/to/target");

or

new FileInfo("path/to/link").CreateAsSymbolicLink("path/to/target")