A question for links in Unix - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

nj302 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-13-2006

Is there a command that I can list, at once, all the links(path) of a give file ( including hard link and soft link)? If not, can it be down by writing a script? Thanks a lot.

(I know that pwd would only list one path.)

98_1LE · #2 (**permalink**) 01-14-2006

I can't think of a way to list all the soft links.

To find the hard links, first run ls -li to find out the inode number of the file. Then do a find from the root of the file system (hard links do not cross mount points) for that inode.

Example from a Solaris 10 box:

Code:

> cd /usr/bin
> ls -li zcat
      3262 -r-xr-xr-x   3 root     bin        27176 Jan 22  2005 zcat
> find . -inum 3262
./compress
./uncompress
./zcat
>

In this case /usr/bin is the root file system, so I chose not to run the find from / as it would look in other file systems. The 3 between the file permissions and root means there are 3 links to one file.

nj302 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2006

Softlink may need to write a script to find out. Thank you very much for the help.

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