CreateHardLink(FileName, ExistingFileName, SecurityAttributes, Transaction)
Establishes an NTFS hard link between an existing file and a new file.
Parameters
FileName : string
The name of the new directory entry to be created.ExistingFileName : string
The name of the existing file to which the new link will point.SecurityAttributes=None : PySECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
Optional SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES object. MSDN describes this parameter as reserved, so use only None
Transaction=None : PyHANDLE
Handle to a transaction, as returned by win32transaction::CreateTransaction
Comments
An NTFS hard link is similar to a POSIX hard link.
This function creates a second directory entry for an existing file, can be different name in
same directory or any name in a different directory.
Both file paths must be on the same NTFS volume.
To remove the link, simply delete
it and the original file will still remain.
Accepts keyword args.
If the Transaction parameter is specified, CreateHardLinkTransacted will be called
Example
Usage
CreateHardLink('h:\\dir\\newfilename.txt','h:\\otherdir\\existingfile.txt')