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# 1  
Old 12-28-2006
How to find link files
How to find the link files. i have main file, now i want to find all the files linked to it.
# 2  
Old 12-28-2006
symbolic link or hard link ?

for symbolic link ou can test -L file
for hard link you can test $( stat -c %h ) -ge 1
# 3  
Old 12-28-2006
This is the only way I know without resorting to C code, and assumes the links are symlinks and can be in any directory:
Code:
find / -type l  -exec ls -l {} \; | grep mainfile_name

This is not fast, so if you have lots of "mainfiles" you are looking modifying the grep
statement to use a pattern file with "mainfile" names.
# 4  
Old 07-02-2009
find Command only displays soft link files. Is there any other way to list the hard link files too.
# 5  
Old 07-02-2009
Yes, we can find the list of hard link files using below command,

find . -links +1 -print

The -links +1 --> Will find all files that have MORE than 1 link. Hardlinked files have a link count of at least two.
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