Link

[Benoît]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to find a symbolic link to point a specific file ?

Thanks.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

no direct way, as for a symbolic link You can't gather any data from it's target.

I'd go with a
find / -local -type s -exec ls -ld {} \; | grep $targetfile
with $targetfile being just the filename w/o path.

I hope this will work for You.

[Pat Lieberg]

You could use find:

find / -type l -name -print

[Muthukumar_5]

find / -type f -exec file -h {} \+ | grep '

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

You can also use specifically as,

find -type l -exec ls -l {} \+ | grep ''

or

find -type l -exec file -h {} \+ | grep 'symbolic link to '

hth.