On Mon, 7 May 2007 11:33:52 +1000
John Ferlito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> > Is there some easy way to find all the symbolic links that point to
> > a given target?
> >
>
> No real easy way since for symbolic links there is no reverse lookup
> table in the filesystem. So you need to trawl the whole filesystem
> looking from them.
>
> Something like
>
>
> find / -lname 'regex of original linked file name' -exec ls -l {} \;
>
>
> The tricky part here is that since links can be relative thay could
> look like any of
> ../file
> /moo/file
> ../../l/../../file
>
> etc so you need to cookup an appropriate regex. For all of the above
> file
> is probably the simplest
Thanks John. I suspected as much when googling failed me.
Alan
>
>
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