How do you find the symbolic links to files.

[John Quinn]

bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:


>>>    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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ncheck is the tool for the job.

John D. Quinn.