Date: 2012nov16 OS: Linux Q. Linux: How can I show the symbolic links in a folder? A. This is one way:

ls -lF | grep -- '->'

The -l and -F options for ls cause symlinks to have -> displayed. We use grep to show only those lines. This is for the current directory. When I run that command in the /dev folder I see the links that udevd made:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 11 16:09 cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 11 16:09 core -> /proc/kcore lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 11 16:09 fd -> /proc/self/fd/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 11 16:09 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 11 16:09 rtc -> rtc0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 11 16:09 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 11 16:09 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 11 16:09 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1|