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Reputation: 7277

Detect if a File is a symbolic link in Java 8

How can I detect whether a File f is a symbolic link (in the unix sense, as created by ln -s source target) or a normal file/directory?

I am using Java 8 and OS X, CentOS and Ubuntu.

In this question they kind of solve it for Java 6. Is there something better in Java 8?

I would like to later use this in order to handle files and directories on a different file system in a different way.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 228

Answers (1)

Evgeniy Dorofeev
Evgeniy Dorofeev

Reputation: 135992

Take a look at java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes.isSymbolicLink() available since Java 7

Upvotes: 1

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