[lug] Tools to navigate Unix links backwards?

[Chip Atkinson]

I don't know about a tool for this but perhaps you could run 
ls -ilr / | sort -n | uniq -w 7 -d 
to get the list of hardlinks that are pointing to the same file



On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Vince Dean wrote:

>  I've inherited a system that depends on a complicated directory
> structure with multiple links, both hard and symbolic, to some of the
> files and directories. The fact that there may be many paths to the same
> file (aliases) makes the system hard to understand and maintain. It
> would help if I could easily find all the links to a given file, that
> is, follow the links backwards.
> 
> I can imagine a tool which would scan a file system and build an index
> of all the links it finds, so that I could follow the links in both
> directions. It would work something like updatedb and locate.
> 
> Does such a tool exist? I can't be the first person to want such a thing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vince
> 
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