How do you find the symbolic links to files.

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1990Nov17.203012.28052 at maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> jwindley at matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jay Windley) writes:
>tcurrey at x102a.ess.harris.com (currey tom 76327) writes:
>>>    How do you find the # of and locations of all links to a file?
>chuck at trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>>     This is an easy one.  You cannot.
>>     
>>     Well, sort of.  You cannot determine which hard links to a file exist
>>without examining all the directories in a given file system, looking for
>>the specific inode of the file in question.  Does anyone know of a tool to
>>do this?
>
>SunOS% find /foo -inum <num> -print
>
>where /foo is the mount point of the filesystem and <num> is the inode
>number will display the paths of all hard links to an inode.

Lest I be accused of somehow "breaking" find(1), the above command will
not work if there are any directories mounted on "/foo" which contain
a file with the same i-number.  Since "/" is a directory which is
frequently mounted on (;-), I think this is a real problem.

The -xdev option can be used to keep find on the same file system, but
it is not a "standard" option.
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