Recipe:Finding symbolic links and its target 


Symbolic link
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$ ln -s target symbolic_link_name

$ ls web
lrwxrwxrwx 1 slynux slynux 8 2010-06-25 21:34 web -> /var/www
web -> /var/www specifies it points to /var/www

Print the symbolic links
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$ ls -l | grep "^l" | awk '{ print $8 }'


$ find . -type l -print #alternate way

Print the target of a symbolic link
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$ ls -l web | awk '{ print $10 }'
/var/www

readlink
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$ readlink web
/var/www