[PLUG] Tracing back symlinks

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:25, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> Given a normal file that has symbolic links pointing to it, is
> there a way to list all the links (the aliases pointing to the
> normal file)?

Not other than scanning the entire directory tree.  (And then you won't
catch the symlinks on NFS clients.)  Like hyperlinks in HTML, they're
one-way links.

Wil 
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