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There are two ways you can find symbolic
link or soft link in UNIX based operating system e.g. Linux, Solaris, BSD
or IBM AIX. First way is by using ls command in
UNIX which display files, directories and links in any directory and other way
is by using UNIX
find command which has ability to search any kind of files e.g. file,
directory or link. In this UNIX
command tutorial we will see examples both of these UNIX command for finding soft link in any directory. If you are new
to UNIX operating system and not familiar with concept of soft
link and hard link, I would recommend to get a good hand on it, as it is
one of the most powerful feature of UNIX based system. One more concept which
is quite important to learn is file
and directory permissions, because UNIX provides different level of
permissions and link inherit permission of destination folder where they are
pointing out. This is also a very popular
Linux interview question asked on both system admin as well as developer
level interview. Any ways Let's start with first example of How to find
symbolic link in UNIX using “ls” command:
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