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List all symbolic links in current directory

Terminal - List all symbolic links in current directory
find /was61 -type l
2012-07-18 18:19:37
User: djenal
Functions: find
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find /path -type l
2009-11-24 01:14:19
User: unixmonkey7109
Functions: find
Tags: readlink
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why go through the hard way? use find with -type l

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perl -e 'print map { -l and $_ .= "\n" } <libxml*>'
2012-10-12 04:50:43
User: MarxBro
Functions: perl
Tags: perl
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List all symbolic links in current directory that matches regexp

Perl alternative to list symlinks with a clumsy regexp filter: place the regex instead of he example 'libxml' and end it with a wildchar to see the results (previous cd on dir).

Is it possible change the '-l' test for '-d' and it will search for directories. [Same applies for -x and -X. See $(perldoc -f -x) for more tests].

I use it quite often when dealing with shared libraries...

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\ls -1 | xargs -l readlink
2009-11-23 19:28:03
User: TeacherTiger
Functions: xargs
Tags: readlink
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For those who don't have the symlinks command, you can use readlink. This command is not straightforward because readlink is very picky. The backslash in front of 'ls' means not to use an alias (e.g. color escape codes from an aliased 'ls' could mess up readlink), and the -1 (one) means to print the entries separated by newlines. xargs -l (the letter L) means to process each input separated by newlines as separate commands.

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ls -lah | grep ^l
2009-11-23 21:23:11
User: sudopeople
Functions: grep ls
Tags: readlink
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Many competing commands to do this, but since most people want a Long list with Human readable files sizes and want to see All files (including hidden (.*) files) this one wins on simplicity and usefulness. Plus grep is just as, if not more portable than sed or awk, and is more widely understood. :)

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find /was61 -type l
2012-07-18 18:20:11
User: djenal
Functions: find
Tags: readlink
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