symbolic link: find all files that link to this file
Hallo all, I need to do this in linux:
- Given: file name 'foo.txt'
- Find: all files that are symbolic links to 'foo.txt'
How to do it? Thanks!
Answer
It depends, if you are trying to find links to a specific file that is called foo.txt, then this is the only good way:
find -L / -samefile path/to/foo.txt
On the other hand, if you are just trying to find links to any file that happens to be named foo.txt, then something like
find / -lname foo.txt
or
find . -lname \*foo.txt # ignore leading pathname components