Finding links
Doug Perlich
doug at cogent.UUCP
Thu Oct 19 03:33:50 AEST 1989
This is more than likely a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway, it's
one thing I'm good at. (I did look into manuals, and no gurus around here.)
I ocasionally have problems working in large project groups when someone
has a link (using ln) to a file. I can't find the file that the link(s) are
to. (Different name, different directory).
For instance:
./xyz:
-rwxrwxr-x 2 george us 24 Jul 21 10:57 ./xyz/foobar
-rwxrwxrwx 1 gorby them 124 Oct 18 09:37 ./xyz/stoly
./abc:
-rwxrwxr-x 2 george us 24 Jun 21 10:57 ./abc/foobee
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ronie us 104 Jul 4 10:57 ./abc/huh?
Where the file foobar and foobee are linked together.
I might be located in directory xyz and I think "Hmm, I want to know what
the name of the link to the file foobar is".
I want to type "findthelinktothefile foobar"
and it will respond "/path1/path2/.../abc/foobee" and any other names
linked to the file.
Thanks
-Doug
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