My searches have only shown me how to create symbolic links using mklink in cmd. I have seen some things saying to use readlink, but PowerShell and cmd don't know what readlink is, and cd obviously doesn't work. So how do I follow one?
For your question i made this batch file:
mkdir truedir
dir > truedir\fileone.txt
mklink /d symdir truedir
cd symdir
dir
And i have found no problem to get the content of the symblic link to a directory from command prompt. No problem also with powershell 5.1 (win 10):
Get-ChildItem C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Desktop\test2\symdir
Can you give us a code example (batch or powershell is the same) to replicate your problem?