how to get report of symbolic link locations

[samf]

Hi, I think this can be done but not sure how,

i have a folder which is symbolically linked to in multiple places on my server (links created using ln -s)

what I want to do is get a print of all of the symbolic link locations that link to that folder (or file)

is this possible?

Thanks!

[burraganesh]

I am giving you a solution,
first change to root directory
cd /
Then, i am assuming your file name is file1,for which you wanted to see symbolic links,so

ls -lR / | grep "[->] file1"

Now you must see a list,but it is possible that file names may be similar,here comes the final point,as the very first step you say
ls -l file1 > temp
Now temp contains the info about your file,use this to contrast between link to your file and link to other file that has the same name.
I am sure at least time flags will differ,which will make your job easy.
Anyway try to do it,there is a hidden bug,can you notice??

[burraganesh]

Simplest way:
find / -lname filename -print
The second argument / indicates to search entire file system
Or if you want to supress any error messages,then say


find / -lname filename -print 2>err >op
Errors are redirected to err(file created automatically)
whole output will be sent to op(again a file)
You can omit >op to see thee output on screen
But i recommend you to run this whole thing in background(use & at the end)
and continue with your work,because this thing may take anywhere from 15 mins to 45 minutes,depending on number of files