This will recursively traverse the /path/to/folder
directory and list only the symbolic links:
ls -lR /path/to/folder | grep ^l
If your intention is to follow the symbolic links too, you should use your find
command but you should include the -L
option; in fact the find
man page says:
-L Follow symbolic links. When find examines or prints information
about files, the information used shall be taken from the prop-
erties of the file to which the link points, not from the link
itself (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to
examine the file to which the link points). Use of this option
implies -noleaf. If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will
still be in effect. If -L is in effect and find discovers a
symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search, the subdirec-
tory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.
When the -L option is in effect, the -type predicate will always
match against the type of the file that a symbolic link points
to rather than the link itself (unless the symbolic link is bro-
ken). Using -L causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always
to return false.
Then try this:
find -L /var/www/ -type l
This will probably work: I found in the find
man page this diamond: if you are using the -type
option you have to change it to the -xtype
option:
l symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the
-follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link is
broken. If you want to search for symbolic links when -L
is in effect, use -xtype.
Then:
find -L /var/www/ -xtype l