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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find - link - error Post 302388836 by Andre_Merzky on Thursday 21st of January 2010 03:15:15 PM
Old 01-21-2010
find + readlink does the trick.
Here is my example setup:
Quote:
> ls -Rl
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 102 Jan 21 21:01 dir_1/
drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 102 Jan 21 21:02 dir_2/

./dir_1:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Jan 21 21:01 file_1

./dir_2:
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 user group 12 Jan 21 21:02 file_1 -> dir_1/file_1
If you can afford to run two commands, then do
Code:
> find . \! -type l -print
.
./dir_1
./dir_1/file_1
./dir_2

> find . -type l -exec readlink {} \;
dir_1/file_1

If you need to have it in one command, try
Code:
> find . \( \! -type l -print \) -or \( -type l -exec readlink {} \; \)
.
./dir_1
./dir_1/file_1
./dir_2
dir_1/file_1

which derives from
Code:
> find . \( \! -type l -print \) -or \( -type l -print \)
.
./dir_1
./dir_1/file_1
./dir_2
./dir_2/file_1

Note that readlink removes the './' - but that should not hurt usually. In case it does: normalize all results, and re-add it to all of them...
 

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NAME

       shtool-mkln - GNU shtool enhanced ln(1) replacement

SYNOPSIS

       shtool mkln [-t|--trace] [-f|--force] [-s|--symbolic] src-path [src-path ...]  dst-path

DESCRIPTION

       This is a ln(1) style command. It is enhanced to provide automatic calculation and usage of relative links with the shortest possible path,
       if possible. Usually if src-path and dst-path are not absolute paths or at least they share a common prefix except the root directory
       (``"/"''). When more than one src-path is specified, all of them are linked into dst-path.

OPTIONS

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