[ale] how to find

[Zyman, Andy]

Greg,
I'm afraid this option "lname" is not working on Sun Solaris. I assume that
it is for Linux...
thank you for the input.

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> > How i can find all links on the particular file?
> > Exmpl: /etc/init.d/xxx has 5 links - info from "ls" command. 
> > But how i can find all these links?
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> Unfortunately, the mapping is one way - the symlinks know which file 
> they are pointing to, but the original file does not know which 
> symlinks it has, only the number. You'll have to look for all the 
> files yourself. Any information you have about their location 
> (for example, if they are all in the /etc directory) will speed up 
> your search a lot. Use the -lname option with find to locate them:
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> find /etc -lname "/etc/init.d/xxx" 2>/dev/null
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