Read Shortcut Target Path?

SafetyCar · 2010-02-14 13:54

Is it possible to read the target path of a windows shortcut (*.lnk)?

I searched on google but I don't find nothing useful for pascal.

Last edited by SafetyCar (2010-02-14 13:54)

Andrew · 2010-02-14 20:46

I searched a bit and found this for you.

Just like the Exiv2 command-line tool can be used in a script as detailed here, you can similarly use Shortcut.exe to do the same.

The relevant command to be called from the script would be: Shortcut /f:"Shortcut to Movie.lnk" /a:q | find "TargetPathExpanded"

This will give you something like TargetPathExpanded=C:\Downloads\Movie File.avi, so you just need to extract what you want (path, file name etc.) from that string.

Hope this helps!

SafetyCar · 2010-02-15 00:22

OK, I made it work

var
  Command, Output, TargetPath: string;

begin
  Command := 'Shortcut.exe /F:"'+Filepath+ '" /A:Q';
  ExecConsoleApp(Command, Output);
  TargetPath := ReplaceRegEx(Output, '^.+\r\nTargetPathExpanded=([^\r]+)\r\n.+$', '$1', False, True);
  FileName := WideExtractBaseName(TargetPath) + '.lnk';
end.

Thanks a lot

Last edited by SafetyCar (2010-02-15 00:26)

den4b · 2010-03-23 19:16

Great work guys!

I might add this feature as a meta tag later on.

den4b Forum

#1 2010-02-14 13:54

Read Shortcut Target Path?

#2 2010-02-14 20:46

Re: Read Shortcut Target Path?

#3 2010-02-15 00:22

Re: Read Shortcut Target Path?

#4 2010-03-23 19:16

Re: Read Shortcut Target Path?

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