I am trying to get Java 8 certification i already have Java 6 a long time ago and Java 7 is my weak point because i havent work with it i am a little confuse.
What is a symbolic Link??
According to wikipedia.
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.
My questions are.
How Java recognize a symbolic link i mean when this would print true?
final Path path = ...
System.out.println(Files.isSymbolicLink(path));
Perhaps this is a silly question but i really want to know!!
On my ubuntu, I have create two files in /tmp/
echo "Hello world" > file.txt
ln -s file.txt link.txt
If I check for both file .
Files.isSymbolicLink(Paths.get("/tmp/file.txt")) //false
Files.isSymbolicLink(Paths.get("/tmp/link.txt")) //true
Same would works on Windows with a file and a link made with mklink.