How can I reverse lookup an alias, ie. find what links to a file or folder?
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Suppose I have a folder
/my/dir/
and an alias in ~/Documents
(called thisdir
) pointing to /my/dir/
. How can I find the alias (ie. find all aliases) that points to /my/dir/
?
This question is **unlike** a seemingly similar question on Ask Different , which asks for how to find where an alias points to (even with deleted files). To the careful reader, this questions however asks for the reverse:
/my/dir/
points to ~/Documents/thisdir
, ie. the dir/
in /my/dir/
is an alias pointing to ~/Documents/thisdir
.
**I want to know how I can find out what points to thisdir
, if I don't know /my/dir/
.**
Asked by Alex Ixeras
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Jan 21, 2023, 01:41 PM
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