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symbolic link

Name: Mike
Date: March 11, 2001 at 07:03:05 Pacific

Comment:

Hello How to find all symbolic link on a file. Thanks in advance Bye

Reply:

hi Mike, to find all symbolic links on a file just do: ls -al /* | grep '^l' | grep 'file_to_be_searched' this will select all symb links (1. char of ls-output is 'l') in your system, then pipe the result to a second grep, that looks for the file you need greet$ Wolfie

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