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Finding all symbolic and hard links to a file on UNIX

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Mar 15, 202610504 views
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If I have a specific file in a UNIX filesystem, is there a way to use bash to find all links to that file, both symbolic and hard? If I need different commands for each, what are they?

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Fix for: Finding all symbolic and hard links to a file on UNIX

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Try this with GNU : Example output: You could use instead of but it will show the inode and other information of the target file instead of the individual files.

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