Display only files and folders that are symbolic links in tcsh or bash

Question

Basically I want do the following:

ls -l[+someflags]

(or by some other means) that will only display files that are symbolic links

so the output would look

-rw-r--r--  1 username grp   size date-time    filename -> somedir
-rw-r--r--  1 username grp   size date-time    filename2 -> somsdfsdf

etc.

For example,

to show only directories I have an alias:

alias  lsd  'ls -l | grep ^d'

I wonder how to display only hidden files or only hidden directories?

I have the following solution, however it doesn't display the output in color :(

ls -ltra | grep '\->'

Solution 1

Find all the symbolic links in a directory:

ls -l `find /usr/bin -maxdepth 1 -type l -print`

For the listing of hidden files:

ls -ald .*

Solution 2

For only "hidden" folders - dot folders, try:

ls -l .**

Yes, the two asterisks are necessary, otherwise you'll also get . and .. in the results.

For symlinks, well, try the symlinks program:

symlinks -v .

(shows all symlinks under current directory)

Solution 3

ls -l | grep lrw 

shows only symlinks (files and directories). Not sure how to get them colorful, though.

ls -lad .* 

shows only hidden files/directories

ls -l | grep drw

shows directories only.

Solution 4

To display JUST the symlinks and what they link to:

find -P . -type l -exec echo -n "{} -> " \; -exec readlink {} \;

To limit to JUST THIS DIR

find -P .  -maxdepth 1 -type l -exec echo -n "{} -> " \; -exec readlink {} \;

Example output (after ln -s /usr/bin moo):

./moo -> /usr/bin

Solution 5

You were almost there with your grep solution; let's focus on getting you COLOR again.

Try this:

ls --color=always -ltra | grep '->'

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