Ubuntu – How to list all symbolic links in a directory

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I have a symbolic link in my /var/www/ directory that links to WordPress. When I run the command ls -la from the /var/www/ directory the link to WordPress doesn't show up. Is there a way to list all of the symbolic links that are in a directory?

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You can use grep with ls command to list all the symbolic links present in the current directory.

This will list all the links present in the current directory.

ls -la /var/www/ | grep "\->"

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Ubuntu – How to find and list all the symbolic links created for a particular file

Here is an example:

find -L /dir/to/start -xtype l -samefile ~/Pictures

or, maybe better:

find -L /dir/to/start -xtype l -samefile ~/Pictures 2>/dev/null

to get rid of some errors like Permission denied, Too many levels of symbolic links, or File system loop detected which find throws them when doesn't have the right permissions or other situations.

-L - Follow symbolic links.
-xtype l - File is symbolic link
-samefile name - File refers to the same inode as name. When -L is in effect, this can include symbolic links.

Notes:

Use lowercase L in -xtype l, not the digit 1.
On macOS / Darwin, -xtype is -type.

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