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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to copy files with the same filenames as those in another folder to that same folder? Post 302857213 by chlade on Wednesday 25th of September 2013 04:12:50 PM
Old 09-25-2013
Everybody, thanks for the responses. I'm an idiot. I was so happy to find someone with my issue that I didn't bother looking at the OS. I needed this for Windows. I've found a solution for Windows.

Thanks for your help and sorry for wasting your time.

Chlade
 

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SYMLINK(3)								 1								SYMLINK(3)

symlink - Creates a symbolic link

SYNOPSIS
bool symlink (string $target, string $link) DESCRIPTION
symlink(3) creates a symbolic link to the existing $target with the specified name $link. PARAMETERS
o $target - Target of the link. o $link - The link name. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | This function is now available on Windows plat- | | | forms (Vista, Server 2008 or greater). | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 Create a symbolic link <?php $target = 'uploads.php'; $link = 'uploads'; symlink($target, $link); echo readlink($link); ?> NOTES
Note Windows users should note that this function will only work if the system you run PHP from is Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 or newer. Windows versions prior to that do not support symbolic links. SEE ALSO
link(3), readlink(3), linkinfo(3). PHP Documentation Group SYMLINK(3)
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