04-05-2008
finding links to a file
I am writing a shell script that needs to files that are links to on specific shell script.
e.g.
/usr/bin/a.sh
/home/mydir/a.sh --> /usr/bin/a.sh
/home/yourdir/a.sh --> /usr/bin/a.sh
/home/hisdir/a.sh --> /usr/bin/a.sh
/home/herdir/a.sh --> /usr/bin/a.sh
I know I can set myself at the /home and "find" the links, but my question is more to the guru types. Is there a simple command that I can use on /usr/bin/a.sh to get the list of all the files that have links to it?
It might give output like:
# lnk2file /usr/bin/a.sh
/home/mydir/a.sh
/home/yourdir/a.sh
/home/hisdir/a.sh
/home/herdir/a.sh
#
Just want to know if there is a better way to skin this cat.
TIA
hagar
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