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Symbolic Links

Links

  • http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

  • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

Install

  • Download Junction.zip from Windows Sysinternals

  • Unzip the contents of the archive. I extracted to:

    C:\tools\on-path\
    

Usage

Create

e.g. To create a symbolic link (an NTFS junction) to the Django admin, media folder so it can be served by the Apache HTTP server:

cd C:\tools\Apache2.2\htdocs\
junction.exe media \tools\Python25\lib\site-packages\djang\contrib\admin\media

Delete

To delete a junction:

junction.exe -d media
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