2

I know that ls -l will give you the "number of links" but I'm looking for a command or combination of commands that will give me a list of all the symbolic links that point to a particular file.

Ollie Saunders
  • 121
  • 2
  • 1
    The links you see with ls -l are *hard* links. Symbolic links are something else entirely. Just out of curiosity, why do you care about symbolic links? – chris Nov 24 '09 at 05:05

1 Answers1

6

Something like this might work:

find -L / -samefile /path/to/your/file

Obviously you'll need to replace /path/to/your/file with the file in question.

A brief explanation:

  • -L = treat symbolic links as if they were the file to which they refer
  • / = search from the root of the file system
  • -samefile = find the files that are the same as this one
molecularbear
  • 348
  • 1
  • 3
  • 9
  • 2
    Huh. I consider myself fairly conversant with `find` but I swear I learn about an option I'd never heard of before every couple weeks... – Insyte Nov 24 '09 at 09:10
  • I didn't know about it myself until I read through the man page in order to answer this question ;) – molecularbear Nov 24 '09 at 13:05