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Search for symbolic links 3

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TSch

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Jul 12, 2001
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DE
Hi folks,

is there a way to search the system for symbolic links (created by using ln -s) and give a list of all symbolic links found ?

Regards
Thomas
 
hi

you can do something like

ls -lRt | grep "^l" # l for symbolic link files
 
find with the -type l option? Presumably using an -exec ls -la {} will give you the paths.

I want to be good, is that not enough?
 
Ken, no need for a -exec, the find builtin -ls gives that info also:

[tt]find . -type l -ls[/tt]


HTH,

p5wizard
 
Great !

Thanks a lot folks !
 
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