need to find all symbolic links starting at a particular directory

[Unix Administrator_5]

I need to find all the symbolic links starting at a particular directory.

I tried find . -type l -follow
but it doesnt seem to descend the hierarchy.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

ls -al | grep ^l

-USA..

[Paul Sperry]

# find . -type l | xargs ll -d

[Pete Randall]

You don't want the -follow:

-follow A position-independent term which causes find
to follow symbolic links. When following
symbolic links, find keeps track of the
directories visited so that it can detect
infinite loops; for example, such a loop
would occur if a symbolic link pointed to an
ancestor. This expression should not be used
with the -type l expression. Always true.



Pete

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Try this:

# find . | xargs ll -d | grep '^l'

Hai

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just use

find /start_dir -type l -exec ll {} \;

Or you can exec any command you want.

HTH,
Jeff

[Elena Leontieva]

Another way to do it is:

find /dirname -type l -exec ls -l {} \;

Elena.