java - determining if a file is a link

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/315004

  •  10-07-2019
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Question

How do you do it, or is it even possible?

I suppose you could fiddle with getCanonicalWhatever and the original path, but that's messy and I don't like it. Please include a definitive reason if you suggest it.

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Solution

See the article How to deal with filesystem softlinks/symbolic links in Java

In short, wait until Java 7 or do a little JNI method

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