How to find symbolic links recursively under a folder in Linux


 
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# 1  
Old 02-24-2012
How to find symbolic links recursively under a folder in Linux

Hi ,

I have folder which has almost 35000 objects, I need to find out or list the objects which are symbolic links. I tried f
Quote:
Find -L
. I am not getting right

Can you pls help

Regards

amv
# 2  
Old 02-24-2012
‘-type’ reports the types of the files that symbolic links point to. This means that in combination with ‘-L’, ‘-type l’ will be true only for broken symbolic links. To check for symbolic links when ‘-L’ has been specified, use ‘-xtype l’.

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# 3  
Old 02-24-2012
thanks a lot.This post helped me.
# 4  
Old 02-24-2012
Hi,
I had visited the page you mentioned, but i could not get the list displayed. I got the following

Quote:
find -L "-xtype 1"
find: unknown predicate `-xtype 1'
# 5  
Old 02-25-2012
On Linux, this works ...

find -type l
# 6  
Old 02-25-2012
Code:
find /folder -type l -exec ls -lad {} \;

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