On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/18/2015 10:02 AM, Peng Yu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't see there is a way to search for symlinks pointing to >> directories natively in find. >> >> This can be done by using -exec and test. But I want to avoid using >> -exec. Is there a way to such a search natively in find? Thanks. > > find -xtype d \! -type d > > does what you want. It finds all files that are directories after > symlink resolution, but which are not directories to begin with. > > In an empty directory: > $ touch a > $ mkdir b > $ ln -s a c > $ ln -s b d > $ find -xtype d \! -type d > ./d
OK. This is what I am looking for. This can be used to check if a symbolic link is pointing a file, a directory, etc. Is there a way to check if a symbolic link is broken without enumerating all the possibilities? -- Regards, Peng
