windows - Change a shortcut's target from command prompt

Question

I'm normally a Linux guy, but I need to write a batch script on Windows to change the target of some shortcuts. Is there a command to do that?

Answer 1

I doubt there is a way to do it with a batch script. It's doable in VBScript, though.

Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set shortcut = sh.CreateShortcut("C:WhereverShortcut.lnk")
shortcut.TargetPath = "C:WhereverWhatever.txt"
shortcut.Save

Save the script in a file ending in vbs and run it from the command line using cscript whatever.vbs.

(Don't be fooled by the name -- CreateShortcut is used to both create and modify shortcuts.)