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By "soft" links, I assume you mean symbolic links.
Since symlinks can cross file systems, if you decide to use 'find' to search for all symlinks, make sure you account for the possibility that they might cross file systems, and search everything.
(Which can take an extremely long time, in my experience)
Why do you need to know all of the symbolic links that point to a file? I've never run into a need for that...
On 2/17/2010 2:43 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
Since soft links work differently, you need a different approach. You can
use the find command with -ls switch to show all files, and then grep for
'-> myfile' But the trick is that myfile may be a qualified, relative or
un-pathed value.
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