Display only files and folders that are symbolic links in tcsh or bash

Question

Basically I want do the following:

ls -l[+someflags]

(or by some other means) that will only display files that are symbolic links

so t

Answer 1

For bash:
This provides a nice output.

sl=`find -L /path/to/target -xtype l`; for links in $sl; do ls --color=always -ltra $links; done | sed 's/^/    /'

Answer 2

You were almost there with your grep solution; let's focus on getting you COLOR again.

Try this:

ls --color=always -ltra | grep '->'

Answer 3

Find all the symbolic links in a directory:

ls -l `find /usr/bin -maxdepth 1 -type l -print`

For the listing of hidden files:

ls -ald .*

Answer 4

To display JUST the symlinks and what they link to:

find -P . -type l -exec echo -n "{} -> " \; -exec readlink {} \;

To limit to JUST THIS DIR

find -P .  -maxdepth 1 -type l -exec echo -n "{} -> " \; -exec readlink {} \;

Example output (after ln -s /usr/bin moo):

./moo -> /usr/bin

Answer 5

Usage: foo $path

Uses current path if none specified.

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in

    -r)
    find $2 -type l -print | while IFS= read line ; do ls -l --color=always "$line"; done
    ;;

    --help)
    echo 'Usage: foo [-r] [$PATH]'
    echo    
    echo '-r  Recursive'
    ;;


    *)
    ls --color=always -ltra $1 | grep '\->'
esac

Answer 6

Try file type flag and get rid of the appending @

ls -F /home/usr/foo | grep "@" | sed 's/@//'