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Is it possible to find the aliases that correspond to a certain folder (and perhaps its sub-directories, too) using Windows cmd? I've tried searching, but it gives me results related to creating aliases for commands, like in Bash. I'm connecting to Windows Server 2008 R2 from a Windows 7 client.
FlyingMolga
Posted 2012-07-26T15:33:25.767
Reputation: 271
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With dir, you can list all symlinks and junctions in a specific folder and its subfolders.
If you pipe the result to find, you can filter out any links that do not interest you.
Examples:
To find all symlinks and junctions on C: that point to C:\Users, use
dir C:\ /al /s | find /i "[C:\Users]"
To find all symlinks and junctions on C: that point to C:\Users or one of its subdirectories, use
dir C:\ /al /s | find /i "[C:\Users\"
Unfortunately, this won't tell where the files are located. grep for Windows gives better results:
Examples:
dir C:\ /al /s | grep -Pi "Directory of|\[C:\\Users\]"
dir C:\ /al /s | grep -i "Directory of\|\[C:\\Users\\\\"
Note that you have to escape the brackets, double the backslashes and quadruple a trailing backslash.
Because hard links are directly associated to a file by the file system, it's much easier/faster to find them.
To find all hard links to file, use
fsutil hardlink list file
Dennis
Posted 2012-07-26T15:33:25.767
Reputation: 42 934
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By alias, do you mean hard links and/or symlinks?
– Dennis – 2012-07-26T15:49:08.640I'm mainly looking for symlinks, but both, if that's possible... – FlyingMolga – 2012-07-26T18:57:35.070