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From: andyc@bucky.intel.com (Andy Crump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: How do you find the symbolic links to files.
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Date: 29 Nov 90 10:59:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: jonb@specialix.co.uk's message of 26 Nov 90 15:07:16 GMT

>>>>> On 26 Nov 90 15:07:16 GMT, jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) said:

Jon> OK, so thats found all the real links. Reading the subject line, how
Jon> do you find all the *symbolic* links? How do I access a symbolic link
Jon> file to find out that it IS a symbolic link (I mean from within C, I
Jon> assume stat( char *filename ) is going to stat the pointed too file?)

Jon> Does 'find' have a wonderful flag for finding symlinks?
Jon> Do any of ncheck/icheck/dcheck/fsck/fsdb/anything understand them?


In SVR4, find as the option parameter of 'l' to -type.  Thus
find <dir> -type l -print, will print all files that are a symbolic
link.  Tho this doesn't tell you where they point.
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