Find shortcut destinations (Windows)

[AHarris]

Hello,

In Windows, if I have a bunch of shortcuts in a folder, is there a way to get a list of the files they are shortcuts to without having to check the properties page of each one?

I’ve tried accessing the directory from Linux, but it just sees them as files.

[Omphaloskeptic]

There’s a utility available for Cygwin called readshortcut which will do this. You can get the source here if you want to try compiling it without Cygwin.

[AHarris]

@Omphaloskeptic

There’s a utility available for Cygwin called readshortcut which will do this. You can get the source here if you want to try compiling it without Cygwin.

Thanks. I was able to do what I needed to do with this utility.