How to find link files

aju_kup · #1 (**permalink**) 12-28-2006

How to find the link files. i have main file, now i want to find all the files linked to it.

becket · #2 (**permalink**) 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

jim mcnamara · #3 (**permalink**) 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.

Sathish Kumar · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

find Command only displays soft link files. Is there any other way to list the hard link files too.

Ramesh_srk · #5 (**permalink**) 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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