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Find all symlinks and where they point to

I'm not having much luck running a command or commands that will find all the symlinks on a RHEL server and also tell me where they actually link to. Does anyone know how to do that?

To find all the symlinks

Code:

find / -type l

We can send these results to ls -l to see the links

Code:

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

Since this will probably have access errors, send them to /dev/null

Code:

find / -type l -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null

But you don't want to find all of them (there's a ton of links for devices and such), you probably just want them in a specific directory, so replace `/` with the path you want to search (i.e. `/etc/` or `/home/user/`)

for got tail end

Code:

sudo find / -type l -exec ls -l {} \; <--

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 userx 1000 25 Jun 12  2012 /media/slack-mirror/slackware64-14.2/source/a/mkinitrd/busybox-dot-config -> busybox-dot-config.1.20.x

lrwxrwxrwx 1 userx 1000 11 Aug 23  2009 /media/slack-mirror/slackware64-14.2/isolinux/sbootmgr/RAWRITE13.EXE -> RAWRITE.EXE

lrwxrwxrwx 1 userx 1000 15 Aug 23  2009 /media/slack-mirror/slackware64-14.2/slackware64/PACKAGES.TXT -> ../PACKAGES.TXT

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 18 05:14 /media/memory -> memory0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 18 05:14 /media/floppy -> floppy0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 18 05:14 /media/dvd -> dvd0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 18 05:14 /media/cdrecorder -> cdrecorder0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 18 05:14 /media/cdrom -> cdrom0

Awesome, many thanks!