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

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Answer 1

ls -l | grep lrw 

shows only symlinks (files and directories). Not sure how to get them colorful, though.

ls -lad .* 

shows only hidden files/directories

ls -l | grep drw

shows directories only.

Answer 2

For only "hidden" folders - dot folders, try:

ls -l .**

Yes, the two asterisks are necessary, otherwise you'll also get . and .. in the results.

For symlinks, well, try the symlinks program:

symlinks -v .

(shows all symlinks under current directory)

Answer 3

Improving a little on the accepted answer given by @ChristopheD (coudnt comment on the accepted answer since I dont have enough reputation)

I use an alias

findsymlinks <path> <depth> 

where the alias is

alias findsymlinks "find \!:1 -maxdepth \!:2 -type l -print | xargs ls -l --color=auto" 

Answer 4

echo > linklist.found && $(for i in `find /path/to/dir/ -type l`; do echo `ls -d --color=always  $i` `echo " -> "`  $(ls -d --color=always `readlink -f $i`) >> linklist.found; echo >> linklist.found;  done;) && cat linklist.found | more

This works good for me however if you will be searching / the filesystem root you will need to omit the proc directory

Answer 5

For (t)csh:

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

(This is simply pbr's answer but with the hyphen escaped.)

Mac OSX

On OSX, ls works differently, so add this to your ~/.cshrc file:

setenv CLICOLOR_FORCE 1   # (equivalent of Linux --color=always)

And then call:

ls -G -ltra | grep '\->'  # (-G is equivalent of ls --color)