Symbolic Link On Windows [patched] Page

mklink file_link.txt C:\Path\To\Target\File.txt

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C:\Restricted\secret.dat ← symlink from C:\Public\readme.txt mklink file_link

Call CreateSymbolicLink from winbase.h : symbolic link on windows

Microsoft Docs. (2023). "Symbolic Links." Windows Dev Center. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/symbolic-links

PowerShell provides a New-Item cmdlet to create symbolic links. The syntax is as follows:

New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path C:\Link -Target C:\Real\Target