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Gerald Hughes
Gerald Hughes

Reputation: 6157

Creating symbolic link to all files/folders in a path

I have d:\folder1 and e:\folder2 What I want to do is create a simlink for each file/folder/ from d:\folder1 in e:\folder2. Recursive if possible

What I tried so far is 

for %f in (d:\folder1\*) do mklink /d %~dp0\%f

It only created some links for files which seem to not work

Does anyone has experience with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3476

Answers (1)

Matt Williamson
Matt Williamson

Reputation: 7117

Well if you're only using one % for your variables, I'd assume you're doing this from cmd prompt. %~dp0 won't resolve from the cmd prompt. You have to put that in a batch file and double the %'s. Since you're using the /d switch for mklink That implies that you want to create a directory symbolic link. If that's the case, use:

For /d %%f in (d:\folder1\*) do mklink /d "%%~df\%%~nflink" "%~dp0%%~nf"

Notice there is no backslash. %%~dp0 already includes it.

If you need to create simlinks to files as well, use

For /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /s /b /a-d "d:\folder1"') do mklink "%%~dpnflink" "%~dp0%%~nxf"

Upvotes: 2

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