How to see if a file is a symlink?

Question

Windows

In windows vista and above, you can create a symlink to a file or folder.
When creating a symlink to a folder in Explorer, it is reflected exactly as a symlink - gray and with an arrow, in far-e it is written that this is a Junction, that is, it is also different.
But if you create a symlink to a file, then both far and the explorer see this file as just a file, although in fact it is a symlink.
If you go far to the attribute editor of this symlink, then in addition to the various file attributes, a drop-down menu appears, which seems to indicate that this is a symlink. not just a file. The conductor generally does not react to it in a special way.
How can you see in the explorer and in far-e that the file is a symlink?

Answer 1

In general, something like this picture:
1. Links to folders are created by the spotlight as a junction and everything works right away. It can be seen in the explorer and in the spotlight that this is a link. 7zip and other programs work normally.
2. Link to a file in the form of a symlink does not work very well - the file size is "symlink" and for example 7zip refuses to pack it (file size 0), although notepad opens the file successfully.
3. By default, the headlight creates a hardlink for files that works correctly (including for the same 7zip), but is not displayed in color at all. But in the third headlight in the list of highlighting, the item "highlight, where the number of hardlinks is more than 1" appears. This, in general, is enough for what I need, in any case, I know for sure that the file is with hardlinks, and the original differs from the link in location.