How do I find circular symbolic links?

Question

I'm working on a HP-UX system and I want to find if there are any circular symbolic links.

So far I'm using the command:

ls -lrt  `find ./ -follow -type l`

But it's only doing ls -lrt on current directory as result.

What command should I use to find all circular symbolic links in a system?

Answer 1

maybe this answer helps: How do I find circular symbolic links?

Answer 2

ls -lrt  `find / -follow -type l`

./ searches the current directory. If it happens to be / then your command as you wrote it will search from the root directory. Otherwise lose the leading dot.

Answer 3

What about:

find -exec sh -c 'readlink -f "$0" &> /dev/null || echo "$0"' {} \;