Image::ExifTool::LNK(3pm)

Image::ExifTool::LNK3pm

Read ms shell link (.lnk) meta information

Usage

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

Overview

This module contains definitions required by Image::ExifTool to extract meta information MS Shell Link (Windows shortcut) files.

References

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd871305(PROT.10).aspx>
<http://www.i2s-lab.com/Papers/The_Windows_Shortcut_File_Format.pdf>
<https://harfanglab.io/insidethelab/sadfuture-xdspy-latest-evolution/#tid_specifications_ignored>
<https://github.com/libyal/libfwsi/blob/main/documentation/Windows%20Shell%20Item%20format.asciidoc>
<https://github.com/EricZimmerman/Lnk/blob/master/Lnk/ShellItems/ShellBag0x00.cs>

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Author

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

From perl-image-exiftool 13.55-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.