readWindowsShellLink
From R.utils v2.0.0
by Henrik Bengtsson
Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file)
Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file).
Usage
## S3 method for class 'default':
readWindowsShellLink(con, clean=TRUE, verbose=FALSE, ...)
Arguments
- con
- A
connection
or acharacter
string (filename). - clean
- If
TRUE
, low-level file specific fields are dropped, e.g. offsets on file locations. - verbose
- If
TRUE
, extra information is written while reading. - ...
- Not used.
Details
This function is implemented based on the official file format
specification [1].
It is intended to replace readWindowsShortcut
(), which was
written based on reverse engineering (before [1] was made available).
Value
- Returns a
list
structure.
References
[1] [MS-SHLLINK]: Shell Link (.LNK) Binary File Format, Microsoft Inc., September 25, 2009.
See Also
Examples
pathname <- system.file("data-ex/HISTORY.LNK", package="R.utils")
lnk <- readWindowsShellLink(pathname)
str(lnk)
str(lnk$pathname)
lnk0 <- readWindowsShortcut(pathname)
str(lnk0$pathname)
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