symbolic link: find all files that link to this file

Question

Hallo all, I need to do this in linux:

• Given: file name \'foo.txt\'
• Find: all files that are symbolic links to \'foo.txt\'

How to do it

Answer 1

Find the inode number of the file and then search for all files with the same inode number:

$ ls -i foo.txt
41525360 foo.txt

$ find . -follow -inum 41525360

Alternatively, try the lname option of find, but this won't work if you have relative symlinks e.g. a -> ../foo.txt

$ find . -lname /path/to/foo.txt