How to search for files that are symbolic links pointing to a particular file?

Akhran · 10-13-2005, 03:53 AM

Eg. Both /home/user1/file1 and /home/user2/file2 are files that are symbolic links to /etc/init.d/testscript.

Is there a command that can search for all files that are symbolic links pointing to /etc/init.d/testscript? For this example, results should be returning /home/user1/file1 and /home/user2/file2.

Thanks.

blindcoder · 10-13-2005, 08:32 AM

You can try something like this:

Code:

find / -type -l | while read link ; do
readlink ${link} | grep -q testscript && echo ${link}
done

You can substitute "find /" with "find <whereveryouwanttosearch>" and "testscript" with whatever filename the links should point to.

Greetings,
Benjamin