I want to move a directory with a bunch of subdirectories and files. But I have the feeling there might be some symlinks to a few of them elsewhere on the file system. (As in the directory contains the targets of symlinks.)

How do I search all files for symlinks pointing to them?

Some combination of find, stat, ls, realpath, readlink and maybe xargs? I can’t quite figure it out.

  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    You could just move the dir and leave a symlink in its place. It doesn’t solve the actual problem, but it’s much easier and will keep everything working just fine.