Creating & resolving symlinks
Creating and resolving symlink is a common task. Deno has a number of functions for this task.
First we will create a text file to link to.
await Deno.writeTextFile("example.txt", "hello from symlink!");Now we can create a soft link to the file
await Deno.symlink("example.txt", "link");To resolve the path of a symlink, we can use Deno.realPath
console.log(await Deno.realPath("link"));Symlinks are automatically resolved, so we can just read them like text files
console.log(await Deno.readTextFile("link"));In certain cases, soft links don't work. In this case we can choose to make "hard links".
await Deno.link("example.txt", "hardlink");
console.log(await Deno.readTextFile("hardlink"));Run this example locally using the Deno CLI:
deno run --allow-write --allow-read https://docs.deno.com/examples/scripts/symlinks.ts