windows symbolic link target

As Harry Johnston said dir command shows the target of symbolic links

2014/07/31  11:22    <DIR>          libs
2014/08/01  13:53             4,997 mobile.iml
2014/07/31  11:22               689 proguard-rules.pro
2014/09/28  10:54    <JUNCTION>     res [\??\C:\Users\_____\mobile\src\main\res]

To complement Paul Verest's helpful answer:

• While cmd's dir indeed shows the link type and target path, extracting that information is nontrivial - see below for a PowerShell alternative.

• In order to discover all links in the current directory, use dir /aL.

PowerShell (PSv5+) solutions:

List all links and their targets in the current directory as full paths:

PS> Get-ChildItem | ? Target | Select-Object FullName, Target

FullName                      Target
--------                      ------
C:\root\public\mytextfile.txt {C:\root\Public\myothertextfile.txt}

Determine a given link's target:

PS> (Get-Item C:\root\Public\mytextfile.txt).Target
C:\root\Public\myothertextfile.txt