topic Re: how to display or find only softlink in Operating System - Linux

how to display or find only softlink

Gemini_2 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:28:36 GMT

How do I list or find only softlinks in a directory?

if I do "ls -l", it will find both :-(

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Sundar_7 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:31:07 GMT

ls -l | grep "^l"

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:33:32 GMT

You can use ls -l |grep ^l, and you can also use find ./* -prune -type l -ls

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:34:01 GMT

Hi,

You can use find

find . -type l

HTH,
Jeff

Re: how to display or find only softlink

TwoProc — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:07:08 GMT

find . -type l -exec ls -al {} \;

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Gemini_2 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:15:02 GMT

thank you all. in my case, I had "->"
so I had to use "\->", that did the trick..

I wish there is a way to display the softlink differently

like right now, it is

softlink real-link

so I have to reverse it to be
real-link softlink when I use "ln -s real-link softare" to recreate some of the softlinks...

Re: how to display or find only softlink

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:31:38 GMT

Hi Gemubu:

Here's an eary way to output the linkage relationship in reverse notation:

# find . -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{print $NF,$(NF-2)}'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Gemini_2 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:35:30 GMT

excellent!!!

that is exactly what I want!!!

thank you soo much

I assigned points to everyone..

you guys are the bEST!!!

Re: how to display or find only softlink

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:39:30 GMT

Hi (again) Gemini:

Sorry for the typo spelling your name.

If you prefer, add the 'ln -s' to your output, too:

# find /var -type l | xargs ls -l | awk '{print "ln -s",$NF,$(NF-2)}'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Gemini_2 — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:44:16 GMT

yes..yes..I see what you meant..

too beautiful!!

thanks again!!! million times!!!

Re: how to display or find only softlink

Nguyen Anh Tien — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:19:03 GMT

James R. Ferguson is nice solution,
I agree with him!
Just comment that "-type l" mean search all link file.
Enjoy with scripting
tienna