On 7/21/05, Bo Jacobsen
How do I list all the soft links pointing to a specific file or dir
/Bo
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Hi Bo, e.g. the command "find" with the -samefile option could do this for you. It just looks for another link (if softlinks should be included use the -L option) and checks if any other file has the same inode. But keep in mind this could take some time as it has to check each inode of each file.. Example: ( to shorten the search time I specified a the /bin directory to search only ) you probably know, that the gzip command has some links to it, which, if the link is called instead causes a specific behaviour for gzip (gunzip, zcat). $>find -L /bin -samefile /bin/gzip /bin/gzip /bin/zcat /bin/gunzip hope this helps Markus