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

I prefer to use the symlinks utility, which also is handy when searching for broken symlinks. Install by:

sudo apt install symlinks

Show all symlinks in current folder and subfolders:

symlinks -rv .

• -r: recursive
• -v: verbose (show all symlinks, not only broken ones)

To find a specific symlink, just grep:

symlinks -rv . | grep foo.txt