Hi, I created a symbolic link with the mklink command in Windows 7. For example: mklink /d c:\linkDir c:\realDir Is there a command that will return the path c:\realDir if I pass in the path with the symbolic link (c:\linkDir)? In python, there's a command called os.path.realpath(path). Unfortunately, Windows' symbolic links aren't recognized by Python versions older than 2.7; we're on 2.6.4. Is there an equivalent command in Windows 7? Thanks.

Hi, MKLINK cannot use to delete symbolic link. To remove a symbolic link, simply delete them as if youre removing a normal file. Just make sure you dont delete the original file.Juke Chou TechNet Community Support

Hi, MKLINK cannot use to delete symbolic link. To remove a symbolic link, simply delete them as if youre removing a normal file. Just make sure you dont delete the original file.Juke Chou TechNet Community Support

Thanks for the reply! Is there a way to query if a path has a symbolic link included in it? I would like to avoid having to traverse up each subdir in the path and parsing the command line windows output.

At the command line, do a DIR /A. The symbolic links will show the real path. Volume in drive C is Windows 8 Release Preview Volume Serial Number is 8604-71E1 Directory of C:\Temp 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <DIR> . 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <DIR> .. 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <SYMLINKD> linkDir [c:\Temp\realDir] 06/23/2012 04:11 PM <DIR> realDir 0 File(s) 0 bytes 4 Dir(s) 311,193,092,096 bytes free

At the command line, do a DIR /A. The symbolic links will show the real path. Volume in drive C is Windows 8 Release Preview Volume Serial Number is 8604-71E1 Directory of C:\Temp 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <DIR> . 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <DIR> .. 06/23/2012 04:12 PM <SYMLINKD> linkDir [c:\Temp\realDir] 06/23/2012 04:11 PM <DIR> realDir 0 File(s) 0 bytes 4 Dir(s) 311,193,092,096 bytes free