Yesterday I asked:
> I hope this is not a FAQ or worse yet a question with an obvious answer
> Is there a way to do a find for symbolic links and only symbolic links?
Well it seems this was an obvious answer and I would have found it if
I had read the FM a little more carefully. My apologies for wasting
bandwidth.
The answer is to use find with "-type l".
I have include the non-redundant replies below.
Thank you very much to those who took the time to answer this question.
Roger.Pease@Eng.Sun.COM ( Roger Pease x61353 )
wade@hobbes.UCSD.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
rogers@wrgate.wr.tek.com (Roger Southwick)
rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn)
Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
mtm@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (Mike Macgirvin)
guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris)
rw@Rational.COM (Bob Weissman)
chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz)
Jay Plett <jay@silence.princeton.nj.us>
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To: larry@cchtor.cch.com
Subject: Re: finding symbolic links
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Better than just save the names to a file, you can create a script which
will reconstruct them. Requires gnu find.
<rebus:jay> gfind /u/jay/Tmp -type l -printf 'ln -s %l %p' > reconstruct_links
<rebus:jay> cat reconstruct_links
ln -s foo /u/jay/Tmp/bar
ln -s /usr/local/bin /u/jay/Tmp/foobin
ln -s zzz /u/jay/Tmp/xxx
<rebus:jay> chmod 755 reconstruct_links
...jay
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Finding symbolic links is easy with the find command.
Use the "-type l" option.
Example: find . -type l -print
or: find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
Both start search in the current dir.
The first prints equiv. of an "ls".
The second gives a more complete listing.
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find / -type l -exec ls -l {} \; > listoflinks.txt
should do what you want. As to parsing the output file and using it to
automagically rebuild the links, well, that's another story.
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find / -ls | grep " -> "
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Use 'find':
find . -type l -print | xargs ls -lg
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-- Thanks,
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