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Old 02-03-2012
List all the soft links and hard links

Hi

I'm logged in as root in an aix box

Which command will list all the soft links and hard links present in the server ?
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Old 02-03-2012
You can find symbolic links with:
Code:
find / -type l

Finding hardlinked files is not so easy...
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Old 02-06-2012
Finding the Hard Links:

Code:
find / -type f -links +1 -exec ls -liad {} \;

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