-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Matthew Miller Sent: Fri 09/28/2007 04:20 PM To: For users of Fedora Cc: Subject: Re: all softlinks to a given file On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:08:32PM +0200, Zoltan Szabo wrote: > Do you know an easy (fast) way to find all the softlinks to a given > file, using Fedora? > Example: in case of "S1 -> F, ...., SN -> F" the task is to find > S1, ..., SN given file F. > Any idea is appreciated, find . -lname F ---------------------------- Matt - I tried that, but it's not foolproof: % ls -li 3815190 -rw-r--r-- 1 jminer iis 0 Sep 28 16:21 F 3815193 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jminer iis 1 Sep 28 16:22 S1 -> F 3815215 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jminer iis 11 Sep 28 16:23 S2 -> ../jminer/F % ls -Lli 3815190 -rw-r--r-- 1 jminer iis 0 Sep 28 16:21 F 3815190 -rw-r--r-- 1 jminer iis 0 Sep 28 16:21 S1 3815190 -rw-r--r-- 1 jminer iis 0 Sep 28 16:21 S2 % find . -lname F -print ./S1 It doesn't match S2 because the "names" don't match. However, it is a short and sweet solution, depending on what the OP intended.
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