How to make find return the target of a symbolic link in hpux?

Question

I want to execute the find command but I want it to return the target instead of the symbolic link itselft.

Is that possible to do in HP-UX?

For example, with:

security -> /dev/vg_irp_ist/rlv_IRP1_security

I want to return /dev/vg_irp_ist/rlv_IRP1_security and not security.

it gives the information from the target but the displayed name is still the symbolic link. — aF., Mar 26 '13 at 12:02

jim mcnamara · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-28T11:39:21.853

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#!/bin/ksh
 name=$(find /path/to/dir -type l -name whatever -exec ls -l {} \; |awk -F '>' '{print $2}')

HPUX does not have a readlink command. If you have GNU coreutils installed then use readlink. Otherwise you are stuck with the above.

This is the backwrds version - given the actual filename look thru links to find it. BEWARE of relative paths in links: i.e., ../../foo/filename

export filename="xz.exe"
find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | 
     awk '{print $(NF)}') | grep -q "$filename" && echo $val

edited Mar 28 '13 at 11:39

answered Mar 26 '13 at 12:12

jim mcnamara

I want to find by the name of the target of the symbolic link and not by the name of the symbolic link itself, do you know how can I change that? – aF. Mar 26 '13 at 13:26

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