UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How would one find and list all links in a file system? My situation is
that I built several servers for disaster recovery, mirror images of
several servers in our main location. Instead of doing a "ls -l" on every
file system down the /usr structor to verify that I have all the necessary
links created, can I use the "find" command (with what options) or some
other command line tool? I'd like to be able to list all links down the /usr
file system on both machines, pipe the information out to a couple of
files and then do a "diff" between the files to see if I missed any.

Ruger14

Code:

find /usr -type l

Just a matter of reading the manual page for find.

Even though it's probably what the original poster wanted, it's definitely worth stressing here that there is no easy way to find hard links (unless you write a script to find all files on each filesystem, and "uniq" the inode numbers of all files found - which will be slow and intensive).

find /blah -type l will only find symbolic links.

Cheers
ZB

For hard links:

Code:

find / -type f -links +2

Not that hard