Hello,

I currently have a program that will search through a given directory and will collect all the sub-directories (folders) and their timestamps. I use this to see if any folders have been added/changed/deleted. It works beautifly, except it doesn't work for a folder that is actually a shortcut to another folder.

I was looking at Detecting if a folder is a symbolic link and thought maybe the -l (symbolic link) check might work for this, but it doesn't. I want to do some kind of check to see if it is a shortcut or not.

Another idea I had to solve this is to somehow identify the type of file it is, but I am having a hard time finding how to do this as well.

This is what my code looks like right now. 

  if (-d $directory)
  {
    #continue processing
  }
  else
  {
    print "$directory does not exist";
  }

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With this code, the shortcut folders say that the directory does not exist. I want to make another section so my code does something like this: 
  if (-d $directory)
  {
    #continue processing
  }
  elsif (SOMETHING) #if it is a shortcut
  {
    print "$directory is a shortcut.  Will not process.";
  }
  else
  {
    print "$directory does not exist";
  }

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Any ideas what that SOMETHING could be?

I am using Windows OS.

In reply to Determining if folder is a shortcut by atyrrell

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