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Finding Files

2.2.1 Symbolic Links

Test: -lname pattern

Test: -ilname pattern

True if the file is a symbolic link whose contents match shell pattern pattern. For `-ilname', the match is case-insensitive. See section 2.1.4 Shell Pattern Matching, for details about the pattern argument. So, to list any symbolic links to `sysdep.c' in the current directory and its subdirectories, you can do:

find . -lname '*sysdep.c'

Option: -follow

Dereference symbolic links. The following differences in behavior occur when this option is given:

• find follows symbolic links to directories when searching directory trees.
• `-lname' and `-ilname' always return false.
• `-type' reports the types of the files that symbolic links point to.
• Implies `-noleaf' (see section 2.9 Directories).