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

In HenrikBengtsson/R.utils: Various Programming Utilities

Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file)

Description

Reads a Microsoft Windows Shortcut (.lnk file).

Usage

## Default S3 method:
readWindowsShellLink(con, clean=TRUE, verbose=FALSE, ...)

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.

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.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

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)

HenrikBengtsson/R.utils documentation built on March 7, 2024, 9:37 a.m.