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by RajT88 996 days ago
Links in windows are a thing, but not well known. I must have been using Windows for close to 20 years before I realized they were in there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

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So not-well-known that several tools that really should know better don't check for junctions with occasionally disastrous results in a fs walk. (Using junctions sounded really clever to me until this had me up all night figuring out why the backup system crashed.)
mklink /d on windows has saved me many times.