Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

When using ls and grep to display symbolic links in the current folder, the grep ^l command filters the ls -l output to only display lines starting with l. The ^ specifies the start of the string. The following l specifies that the string must start with l, the identifier for a link.

When using find, we use the argument -typel, which instructs find to search for symbolic link files. The -print option prints the list of symbolic links to the standard output (stdout). The initial path is given as the current directory.