Bash output all links in following format [closed]

i want to display all links in a directory in the following format:

linkname -> path/of/the/link

How can i do this?

Answer

You can use find to search for symbolic links and use the builtin function printf to make it look like you want:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -printf "%f -> %ln"

Explanation: find . searches in the actual directory, -maxdepth 1 only looks this directory, if omitting find runs through all subdirectories, -type l looks only for symbolic links, %f means the filename and %l the target of the link (empty if no link)