On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:56:08PM -0600, Michael Stowe wrote:
> > On a side note, I *am* looking for a good way to cleanly list all the
> junction points so that I can periodically catalog them for potential
> future restore.
> >
> > Note I tried "dir /aL /s" but it doesn't give a very clean listing plus
> it seems to itself get hung up on junction loops. So, is there any good
> code (either cmd.exe, powershell, or cgywin) to find all junction points
> and list them in a simple 2-column like list
> > consisting of the "source" and the "target" (note standard cygwin 'find'
> or 'ls' won't help since it doesn't distinguish between
> > symlinks and junction points)
> 
> My first suggestion is what you've already tried:  "dir /aL"  The Windows
> command shell behaves quite differently than POSIX, so (for example)
> deleting a symlink to a directory in Windows actually deletes the
> *contents* not the symlink itself.  (Instead, you use rmdir to delete the
> symlink.  Yeesh.)
> 
> I'm not aware of a tool that gets past the looping issues, or even that
> has better output than dir (this doesn't mean they don't exist.)

junction.exe from sysinternals comes to mind as another junction
detection/creation tool. Not sure if it handles loops properly or not.

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