How To Show Or Display Symbolic Links In The Linux Shell Prompt

this is a question asked by a user and the answer was provided. learn how to display and list your files in your Linux system and at the same time you can determine which files are symbolic links when you execute the list (ls) command in the Linux shell [790], Last Updated: Sun Jul 05, 2020

melroyb84

Thu Apr 24, 2008

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how can i display or show symbolic links in linux

i forgot what the ccommand is

Gregory

Tue Mar 10, 2015

You are completly wrong. for extracting symbolic link use command: readlink . It will put extracted symbolic link to its stdout, or returns empty string. For real link exit code is 0. For other reasons it exits with 1, for example it isn't link : directory or regular file, and file not found .

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Thu Apr 24, 2008

if you do this command, it will show you the path of the symbolic links

ls -la

unix learning

Sun Apr 19, 2009

wow i tried it and it really has linux show symbolic links thanks for the command

toaran

Tue Jul 14, 2009

please show symbolic link linux ls command with images it would be more helpful

seteve

Fri Jul 31, 2009

how about if you have a hard link inode symbolic link directories will that affect any symlink hard link or any symbolic link linux if i use another command like ls which shows a list, but will it also show symbolic link. and what is the color symbolic link permissions will show when i do the ln symbolic command..

i have a link linux in my server, but the hard link shell is not working..

so how can i tell if what i am seing when i send the LS command its a simbolic link?

How To Show Or Display Symbolic Links In The Linux Shell Prompt

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