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I need to process a number of directories, determine what files in them are symlinks, and what they link to. This sounds simple, but I have no control over the presence of control or other characters in the file names, and I need a robust solution.
So, given a file of arbitrary name, how do I safely determine what it links to, when the link destination can also have arbitrary contents?
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Showing soft link using Find command in UnixWhen you use the find command with option type and specify the type as small L ( l for the link), it displays all soft links in the specified path.
The Symlink option (Symlink Target Operations) only appears in the context menu from ClearCase Explorer after right-clicking on an actual symbolic link. If the symlink target is in another VOB, then that VOB must also be mounted on the local system.
If you find two files with identical properties but are unsure if they are hard-linked, use the ls -i command to view the inode number. Files that are hard-linked together share the same inode number. The shared inode number is 2730074, meaning these files are identical data.
Use the ls -l command to check whether a given file is a symbolic link, and to find the file or directory that symbolic link point to. The first character “l”, indicates that the file is a symlink. The “->” symbol shows the file the symlink points to.
readlink -f <linkname> See the readlink(1) man page for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly or the GNU coreutils info page.
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