how would i find all locations of symlinks that point to a particular path or file?

Question

I have a file system where one or more symlinks exist to a file. Is there a way to go thru each file and determine where all the symlinks that point to it on the file system are?

OS is Ubuntu 9.10 Linux

Answer 1

You can use good old find with the -lname switch:

find / -lname '/path/to/linked/file' 2> /dev/null

For a more intricate approach, you can use the inode number of the file (retrieve from ls -i <file>):

find / -follow -inum 123456 2> /dev/null