find . -type l says missing argument

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Published on 2012-05-31T09:20:34Z Indexed on 2012/05/31 10:50 UTC
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I want to find all symbolic links in the current directory and below. Therefore, I used:

find . -type l

Running that clears the screen showing "Pattern not found (press RETURN)" at the bottom of the screen. After pressing return, I get:

find: missing argument to `-type'

Here some system details:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64Bit
zsh 4.3.10 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
happens also in Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2

So how do I search for symbolic links so that I can grep in their names?

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