List all symbolic links in current directory

• List all symbolic links in current directory

  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.

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  
  

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  \ls -1 | xargs -l readlink
  TeacherTiger · 2009-11-23 19:28:03 7
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• List all symbolic links in current directory

  Tested with GNU and BSD ls. Show Sample Output

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  Emily:ivan Ivan$ ls -lah | grep ^l.
  lrwxr-xr-x    1 Ivan  staff    29B Jul 14 02:04 .agignore -> /Users/ivan/dotfiles/agignore
  lrwxr-xr-x    1 Ivan  staff    28B Jul 14 02:04 .aliases -> /Users/ivan/dotfiles/aliases
  lrwxr-xr-x    1 Ivan  staff    26B Jul 14 02:04 .gemrc -> /Users/ivan/dotfiles/gemrc
  lrwxr-xr-x    1 Ivan  staff    30B Jul 14 02:04 .gitconfig -> /Users/ivan/dotfiles/gitconfig

  
  

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  ls -la | grep ^l
  gatopan · 2014-08-11 03:06:48 8
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• List all symbolic links in current directory

  With this version, you can list all symlinks in the current directory (no subdirectories), and have it list both the link and the target. Show Sample Output

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 cm cm 30 Jun 14  2014 /home/cm/.zlogin -> /usr/lib/prezto/runcoms/zlogin
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 cm cm 31 Jun 14  2014 /home/cm/.zlogout -> /usr/lib/prezto/runcoms/zlogout
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 cm cm 33 Jun 14  2014 /home/cm/.zpreztorc -> /usr/lib/prezto/runcoms/zpreztorc
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 cm cm 32 Jun 14  2014 /home/cm/.zprofile -> /usr/lib/prezto/runcoms/zprofile
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 cm cm 30 Jun 14  2014 /home/cm/.zshenv -> /usr/lib/prezto/runcoms/zshenv
  

  
  

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  ls -l `find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type l -print`
  skittleys · 2015-01-04 02:36:47 7
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  find /was61 -type l
  djenal · 2012-07-18 18:19:37 3
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  find /was61 -type l
  djenal · 2012-07-18 18:20:11 3
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I have no idea how my command could be malicious. At least have the courtesy to comment.

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