how to display or find only softlink

[Gemini_2]

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

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

[Sundar_7]

ls -l | grep "^l"

[Ivan Ferreira]

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

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

You can use find

find . -type l

HTH,
Jeff

[TwoProc]

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

[Gemini_2]

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...

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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...

[Gemini_2]

excellent!!!

that is exactly what I want!!!

thank you soo much

I assigned points to everyone..

you guys are the bEST!!!

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Gemini_2]

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

too beautiful!!

thanks again!!! million times!!!

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

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