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## Extract File Information (acknowledging symbolic file links also on Windows)

### Description

Extract File Information (acknowledging symbolic file links also on Windows).

### Usage

    file.info2(...)

### Arguments

`...` | A `character` `vector`s containing file paths. Tilde expansion is done: see `path.expand`().

### Value

A `data.frame`. See `file.info`() for details.

### Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

### See Also

Internally, `file.info`() is used, which does not respect symbolic links on Windows. Instead, on Windows, `Sys.readlink2`() is used for such link to identify the target file and retrieve the file information on that instead.

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