List all symbolic links in a directory

Abu Eesa
FusionQA
Published in
Feb 14, 2019

On a Linux system, if you need to find out all symbolic links in a given directory. Assuming you are in the directory you need to be in it can be done simply by:

ls -la | grep "\->"

If you want to search in a different directory them specify it like this:

ls -la /this/directory | grep "\->"

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