Lua Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77+

Create Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to create a symbolic (soft) link. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Chilkat supports symbolic links on both Windows and non-Windows operating systems.
-- Note: On Windows, symbolic links and Windows shortcuts are two different things.
-- On the Windows operating system, a process requires a special privilege to create
-- a symbolic link (unless running as administrator).

local fac = chilkat.FileAccess.new()

-- Here we create a symbolic link to point to qa_data/hamlet.xml
--
local target = "qa_data/hamlet.xml"
local symlink = "qa_output/symlink_hamlet.xml"
local success = fac:symlink_create(target, symlink)
if not success then
    print(fac.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Here we create a directory symbolic link.  The target is a directory (not a regular file)
target = "qa_data/xml/"
symlink = "qa_output/xml_dir"
success = fac:symlink_create(target, symlink)
if not success then
    print(fac.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Success.")