How do you find the symbolic links to files.

[Barry Shein]

>>    How do you find the # of and locations of all links to a file?
>
>     This is an easy one.  You cannot.
>     
>     Well, sort of.  You cannot determine which hard links to a file exist
>without examining all the directories in a given file system, looking for
>the specific inode of the file in question.  Does anyone know of a tool to
>do this?

	% ls -i foo
	  4924 foo
	% find /mount-point -inum 4924 -print
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        -Barry Shein

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