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Re: How to search for symlinks pointing to directories?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: How to search for symlinks pointing to directories? |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:13:50 -0600 |
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On 04/18/2015 10:02 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't see there is a way to search for symlinks pointing to
> directories natively in find.
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> This can be done by using -exec and test. But I want to avoid using
> -exec. Is there a way to such a search natively in find? Thanks.
find -xtype d \! -type d
does what you want. It finds all files that are directories after
symlink resolution, but which are not directories to begin with.
In an empty directory:
$ touch a
$ mkdir b
$ ln -s a c
$ ln -s b d
$ find -xtype d \! -type d
./d
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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