Perl

Get the Target of a Symbolic Link

See more FileAccess Examples

Demonstrates how to get the target of a symbolic link.

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

Perl

use chilkat();

$fac = chilkat::CkFileAccess->new();

$targetPath = $fac->symlinkTarget("qa_data/my_symlink");
if ($fac->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print "Failed to get symlink target." . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "target path = " . $targetPath . "\r\n";