Re: finding symlinks with various properties?

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Aaron Davies <address@hidden> wrote:
> is it possible to search for symlinks based on properties (name, wholename, 
> etc.) of their targets?
>
> initially i thought something like
>
> $ find -L -xtype l -name foo
>
> would find links pointing to foo, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I like to make sure the documentation is up-to-date and useful to all
findutils users.   Could you let me know where you looked in the
documentation for this information?   If I add the needed information
at that spot, this will likely make the documentation more useful for
everybody.

Thanks,
James.
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