How do you find the symbolic links to files.

Gene Spafford spaf at cs.purdue.EDU
Mon Nov 26 06:32:04 AEST 1990


In article <BZS.90Nov21184414 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>>    How do you find the # of and locations of all links to a file?
>>
>	% ls -i foo
>	  4924 foo
>	% find /mount-point -inum 4924 -print

Somewhat faster, but requiring root access, you can use the "ncheck"
command if your system has it:

# ncheck -i 4924 /dev/rsd1c

-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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