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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding links
Message-ID: <1262@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:22:40 GMT
References: <598@cogent.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <598@cogent.UUCP>, doug@cogent.UUCP (Doug Perlich) says:

> I ocasionally have problems working in large project groups when someone
> has a link (using ln) to a file.  I can't find the file that the link(s) are
> to.  (Different name, different directory).

This shell script isn't smart enough to limit its output to the 
current filesystem, but it's cheap.

if [ $# = 1 ]
then
	TARGET=`/bin/ls -i $1|/usr/bin/cut -c1-5`
	if  [ $TARGET  ]
	then
		/bin/find / -inum $TARGET -print 2>/dev/null
	fi
else
	/bin/echo usage: $0 filenm
	exit 1
fi

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