How to follow a symbolic/soft link in cmd or PowerShell?

Question

My searches have only shown me how to create symbolic links using mklink in cmd. I have seen some things saying to use readlink, but PowerS

Answer 1

For your question i made this batch file:

mkdir truedir
dir > truedir\fileone.txt
mklink /d symdir truedir
cd symdir
dir

And i have found no problem to get the content of the symblic link to a directory from command prompt. No problem also with powershell 5.1 (win 10):

Get-ChildItem C:\Users\\OneDrive\Desktop\test2\symdir

Can you give us a code example (batch or powershell is the same) to replicate your problem?