R.utils (version 2.12.3)

readWindowsShellLink: Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file)

Description

Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file).

Usage

# S3 method for default
readWindowsShellLink(con, clean=TRUE, verbose=FALSE, ...)

Value

Returns a list structure.

Arguments

con

A connection or a character 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.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

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).

References

[1] [MS-SHLLINK]: Shell Link (.LNK) Binary File Format, Microsoft Inc., September 25, 2009.

See Also

readWindowsShortcut() filePath

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)