[ale] how to find

[James P. Kinney III]

Time for an "upgrade" :)

Look to see if the gnu-tools is installed. Look for gfind (maybe,
haven't kicked slowos in a long time).

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 09:52, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> Greg,
> I'm afraid this option "lname" is not working on Sun Solaris. I assume that
> it is for Linux...
> thank you for the input.
> 
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> > From: Greg Sabino Mullane [mailto:greg at turnstep.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:48 AM
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> > > How i can find all links on the particular file?
> > > Exmpl: /etc/init.d/xxx has 5 links - info from "ls" command. 
> > > But how i can find all these links?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the mapping is one way - the symlinks know which file 
> > they are pointing to, but the original file does not know which 
> > symlinks it has, only the number. You'll have to look for all the 
> > files yourself. Any information you have about their location 
> > (for example, if they are all in the /etc directory) will speed up 
> > your search a lot. Use the -lname option with find to locate them:
> > 
> > find /etc -lname "/etc/init.d/xxx" 2>/dev/null
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