How do you find the symbolic links to files.

[Root Boy Jim]

In article <BZS.90Nov27120756 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>From: mchinni at pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
>>If so, how would you find all symbolic links to the file ?

The hard way. By looking thru the entire filesystem, examining
every file, and determining whether it points to the target.

>In general, it's very difficult. Consider that valid symlinks can
>point across NFS mounts. 

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that.
I suppose it all depends on what stat returns for st_dev and st_ino.

>	% find /mount-point -type l -a -exec testinode '{}' #inum ';'

Gee, Barry, using -exec is so passe :-) XARGS is the way to go.

Your program testinode should accept multiple arguments. The
first arg is special and contains tha name of the target file.
If the st_dev and st_ino match, print the sucker.

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