Creating & resolving symlinks

First we will create a text file to link to.

await Ende.writeTextFile("example.txt", "hello from symlink!");

Now we can create a soft link to the file

await Ende.symlink("example.txt", "link");

To resolve the path of a symlink, we can use Ende.realPath

console.log(await Ende.realPath("link"));

Symlinks are automatically resolved, so we can just read them like text files

console.log(await Ende.readTextFile("link"));

In certain cases, soft links don’t work. In this case we can choose to make "hard links".

await Ende.link("example.txt", "hardlink");
console.log(await Ende.readTextFile("hardlink"));

Run this example locally using the Ende CLI:

ende run -W -R https://docs.ende.sh/examples/scripts/symlinks.ts

Additional resources

• Doc: Ende.writeTextFile
• Doc: Ende.symlink