---
title: isSymbolicLink
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/filewrapper/issymboliclink
---

# isSymbolicLink

A boolean that indicates whether the file wrapper object is a symbolic-link file wrapper.

## Declaration

```swift
var isSymbolicLink: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This property contains true when the file wrapper object is a symbolic-link file wrapper, false otherwise. Invocations of read(from:options:) may change the value contained by this property, if the type of the file on disk has changed.

## See Also

### Querying File Wrappers

- [isRegularFile](foundation/filewrapper/isregularfile.md)
- [isDirectory](foundation/filewrapper/isdirectory.md)