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Asked: 2026-05-10T14:56:46+00:00

I have a folder on my server to which I had a number of

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I have a folder on my server to which I had a number of symbolic links pointing. I’ve since created a new folder and I want to change all those symbolic links to point to the new folder. I’d considered replacing the original folder with a symlink to the new folder, but it seems that if I continued with that practice it could get very messy very fast.

What I’ve been doing is manually changing the symlinks to point to the new folder, but I may have missed a couple.

Is there a way to check if there are any symlinks pointing to a particular folder?

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  1. I’d use the find command.

    find . -lname /particular/folder

    That will recursively search the current directory for symlinks to /particular/folder. Note that it will only find absolute symlinks. A similar command can be used to search for all symlinks pointing at objects called ‘folder’:

    find . -lname '*folder'

    From there you would need to weed out any false positives.

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