List symlinks point to target file

[napzilla]

This seems like it should be a simple thing to do, and maybe I just have the dumb today. A long time ago, I created a symlink to a file. Now I'm looking at the file trying to remember where I created the symlink. Is there a converse to "ls -l" or "readlink" that will list the references pointing to a target file? I went through the manpages for ls and ln and couldn't find anything, nor did my handy "Linux Pocket Guide" have any insight to share. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[napzilla]

I resolved my issue without answering this question. Anybody know the magic command or flag?

[Boondoklife]

only thing i cud think of would be this

ls -l | grep "\-> /etc"

replacing the /etc with the location or file it pointed to.

[johnkeates]

Combine that with a find / I guess

[Glyndwr]

find / -type l

will give you all the symlinks on your system

[Boondoklife]

If you are looking to go through the entire file system then yes it would just add ls -lR / to the front of the command instead of ls -l.

[malclocke]

To find all symbolic links to the file /home/me/foo on the whole filesystem:

find / -lname /home/me/foo

[jure.skelin]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...94&postcount=5

to exclude same paths (for example /dev and /sys)

find /!(dev|sys) -follow -inum <inode number>