how to find full path for soft links

bkcreddy17 · 11-17-2008, 04:32 AM

If we use the following command

Code:

$ls -lR /dir/to/path/ | grep lrwxrwxrwx

we can find all the soft links. Then how get the complete path of link and the dir/file it was to?

homey · 11-17-2008, 04:51 AM

While in the directory that has the link,
the command: ls -al will show it.

colucix · 11-17-2008, 05:20 AM

You can try the readlink command. Moreover to find all the links in a certain directory you can try the find command using the -lname test. For example:

Code:

find /path/to/dir -lname \* -exec readlink -f {} \;

bkcreddy17 · 11-17-2008, 05:42 AM

Code:

ls -al

is to see file/dir in same dir. I want recursively an with complete path. If we find or locate command how will show? Just similar to that i want to find all soft links with theit complete path.

colucix · 11-17-2008, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bkcreddy17

Code:

ls -al

is to see file/dir in same dir. I want recursively an with complete path. If we find or locate command how will show? Just similar to that i want to find all soft links with theit complete path.

Maybe you missed my post above...

pixellany · 11-17-2008, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bkcreddy17

If we use the following command

Code:

$ls -lR /dir/to/path/ | grep lrwxrwxrwx

we can find all the soft links. Then how get the complete path of link and the dir/file it was to?

I don't want to nitpick----well, maybe I do..

---The expression above finds only the soft links which have permissions rwxrwxrwx
.
What you might need is "grep ^l"

pauledwards03 · 11-17-2008, 12:03 PM

perhaps the file command could help. It does a lot more but it will also tell you what the link points to.

Code:

file filename