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Get the Target of a Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to get the target of a symbolic link.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

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Chilkat.FileAccess fac = new Chilkat.FileAccess();

string targetPath = fac.SymlinkTarget("qa_data/my_symlink");
if (fac.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to get symlink target.");
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("target path = " + targetPath);