List all symbolic links on a directory

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Published on 2010-04-14T17:38:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 17:43 UTC
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Hey,

a short question: is it possible to list all symbolic links onto a directory other than running a find over the whole filesystem?

Background: I have a directory containing a lot of different versions of a library and I'd like to do some cleanup work and delete the versions which weren't used in any projects.

Thanks, Mathias

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